linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 13/16] audit: track container nesting

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Date:   Tue, 4 Feb 2020 10:52:36 -0500
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
Cc:     Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        omosnace@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com, simo@...hat.com,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        nhorman@...driver.com, Dan Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>,
        mpatel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 13/16] audit: track container nesting

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:47 AM Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:19:44 AM EST Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > The established pattern is that we print -1 when its unset and "?" when
> > > its totalling missing. So, how could this be invalid? It should be set
> > > or not. That is unless its totally missing just like when we do not run
> > > with selinux enabled and a context just doesn't exist.
> >
> > Ok, so in this case it is clearly unset, so should be -1, which will be a
> > 20-digit number when represented as an unsigned long long int.
> >
> > Thank you for that clarification Steve.
>
> It is literally a  -1.  ( 2 characters)

Well, not as Richard has currently written the code, it is a "%llu".
This was why I asked the question I did; if we want the "-1" here we
probably want to special case that as I don't think we want to display
audit container IDs as signed numbers in general.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com