Re: [PATCH v4] selinux: support deferred mapping of contexts

Steve Grubb
2008-05-07T16:48:12Z

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 11:29:36 Eric Paris wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:17 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > > > I assume we do NOT want to use this variant interface when getting
> > > > contexts to display in audit messages, as we want the audit
> > > > messages to correspond to the actual denial and to yield proper
> > > > policy if turned into an allow rule.
> > >
> > > Is there any way we could get them both displayed if there is a
> > > denial? Might be interesting to know both that the denial was
> > > actually unlabeled_t object but also what the 'incorrect' label
> > > was.....
> >
> > Easy to do kernel-side, but requires a new avc audit field that won't
> > cause any complaints by audit userland or tools like audit2allow.

What would be the proposed name of this new field? Would it hold just a
context string? FWIW, audit user land doesn't really care except that we
don't have name collisions on fields.

-Steve