On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:12:39 +0200 peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> avc: denied { find } for interface=vendor.qti.hardware.perf::IPerf sid=u:r:permissioncontroller_app:s0:c230,c256,c512,c768 pid=9164 scontext=u:r:permissioncontroller_app:s0:c230,c256,c512,c768 tcontext=u:object_r:vendor_hal_perf_hwservice:s0 tclass=hwservice_manager permissive=0 > >> avc: denied { execute } for pid=13914 comm="ScionFrontendAp" path="/data/user_de/0/com.google.android.gms/app_chimera/m/00000002/oat/arm64/DynamiteLoader.odex" dev="sda77" ino=204967 scontext=u:r:platform_app:s0:c512,c768 tcontext=u:object_r:privapp_data_file:s0:c512,c768 tclass=file permissive=0 ppid=788 pcomm="main" pgid=13914 pgcomm="on.updatecenter" > >> > >> It omit the fields that are not used. Some parts are common some are not. So a correct format specification for trace will be problematic if there is no "optional" field indicator. > > That's all quite noisy. What is the object of these changes? What > > exactly are you trying to trace and why? > > It is noisy, and it have to be. it covers a lot of different areas. One common problem is > to debug userspace applications regarding violations. You get the violation from the logs > and try to figure out what you did to cause it. With a trace point you can do much better > when combine with other traces. Having a the userspace stack is a very good way, > unfortunately it does not work on that many architectures within trace. > > What exactly are you doing with any trace? You collect data to analyse what's > going on. This is not different. Selinux do a specific thing, but is has lots of parameters. Have you thought of adding multiple trace events with if statements around them to decode each specific type of event? Note, you can have a generic event that gets enabled by all the other events via the "reg" and "unreg" part of TRACE_EVENT_FN(). Say its called trace_avc, make a dummy trace_avc() call hat doesn't even need to be called anywhere, it just needs to exist to get to the other trace events. Then have: if (trace_avc_enabled()) { if (event1) trace_avc_req_event1(); if (event2) trace_avc_req_event2(); [..] } The reason for the trace_avc_enabled() is because that's a static branch, which is a nop when not enabled. When enabled, it is a jump to the out of band if condition block that has all the other trace events. -- Steve