linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add SELinux context and TTY name to AUDIT

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:51:25 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
To:	Miloslav Trmac <mitr@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-audit@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SELinux context and TTY name to AUDIT_TTY records

On Friday 20 March 2009 04:53:27 am Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> ----- "Paul Moore" <paul.moore@...com> wrote:
> > There are several audit experts which should review this code but two
> > things jumped out at me when glancing at your patch:
> >
> >  1. SELinux SIDs should not be recorded
>
> Almost all code that logs SELinux contexts in kernel/audit* does the same
> thing as this patch, falling back to a SID if it can't be converted to a
> string.

Ungh, that's ugly and questionably useful (I suppose I know why this is done) 
but if that convention then who am I to argue.

> >  2. From a SELinux/security point of view ttys are considered objects
> >     and their labels/contexts should be recorded with "obj=" not
> > "subj="
>
> The patch logs the context of the process, not of the TTY.

Okay, that is what I get for just glancing at patches and not looking at them 
closer :)

-- 
paul moore
linux @ hp

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