On 14/03/27, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 03/27/2014 01:20 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On 14/03/12, James Morris wrote:
> >> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >>
> >>> And the same phrase goes to James Morris...
> >>>
> >>> If you are sure that it is safe to use get_task_comm() from
> >>> dump_common_audit_data() and you prefer locked version, please pick up 
> >>> below
> >>> patch via your git tree.
> >>>
> >>> If you are unsure or prefer lockless version, I'll make a lockless version
> >>> using do_get_task_comm() proposed in this thread.
> >>
> >> If you can't understand whether your patch is correct or not, don't ask me 
> >> to apply it to my tree.
> >>
> >> If you're unsure, get it reviewed first.
> > 
> > Steve (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/11/218 ) and James,
> > 
> > Are the labels on data output in LSM_AUDIT_DATA_TASK even right?  The
> > general case gives pid and comm of current.  Then the
> > LSM_AUDIT_DATA_TASK case gives pid and comm from the task handed in in
> > the struct common_audit_data pointer.  They are a duplicate of the
> > general case without generating a new message.  I expect this will cause
> > ausearch to ignore those latter two fields.  Should the latter two be
> > renamed to something like ad_pid= and ad_comm= ?
> 
> Hmmm..only seems to be used by Smack.
> SELinux had a tsk field in common_audit_data that was removed by
> b466066.  This other tsk field seems to have been added for Smack by
> 6e837fb.
> 
> That said, it would be nice to have pid/comm info for the target of a
> signal check as well as current.

Reviving a bit of an old thread...

Probably the appropriate keywords would be opid= and ocomm= for the
target (object).

- RGB

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