audit-viewer "comm" question

[Steve Grubb]

On Monday 04 August 2008 18:49:42 LC Bruzenak wrote:
> After reading Steve's info about the "comm" field being clipped at 16
> chars, I was surprised to see a longer string inside the audit-viewer
> "comm" field.

If the event below is where it came from, then it originated in user space and 
is not subject to the 16 byte kernel limitation.

> The same event in ausearch shows a NULL "comm" field, but the rest of
> the info lines up with the GUI:

The user space AVCs are FUBAR and I told the SE Linux people that they are not 
following the audit logging convention. They need to fix the code in 
libselinux.

-Steve