On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 08:59:50 AM Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> How about permitted rather then allowed. > I think permitted is already in an AVC. Not sure where. > >> On 04/29/2014 10:59 PM, Eric Paris wrote: >>> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:54 -0700, Stephen Smalley wrote: >>>> Requested for Android in order to distinguish denials that are not in >>>> fact breaking anything yet due to permissive domains versus denials >>>> that are being enforced, but seems generally useful. result field was >>>> already in the selinux audit data structure and was being passed to >>>> avc_audit() but wasn't being used. Seems to cause no harm to ausearch >>>> or audit2allow to add it as a field. Comments? >>> I think it's a great idea, but I'm worried that Steve is going to get >>> grumpy because an AVC record is going to have a result= field which is >>> similar, but not necessarily related to the res= field of a SYSCALL >>> record. > I think that I'll have to parse this field no matter what. Its probably that > important. In the syscall, we use success= to be the final determination. > > >>> Seems easily confused (although probably 9999 times out of >>> 10000 they will be the same) > Why would this ever not be correct? Are there times when we get an AVC with a > denial _and_ the syscall completes successfully? > > I'd suggest using res= since its in the audit dictionary and means exactly > what you are wanting to use it for. In it, 1 is success, 0 is failure. > I have seen AVC's where the success=yes in enforcing mode. Basically the kernel takes a different code path and the syscall succeeds. Most of these end up as dontaudits. >>> So while I wholeheartedly think we should take the idea, I wonder if >>> someone can dream up a name that isn't confusingly similar... >>> >>> I can't think of anything... > There is thesaurus.com. :-) > > consequence, outcome, effect, reaction, conclusion, verdict, decision, > judgement, finding, ruling, answer, solution, recommendation, order, ... > > -Steve _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
