[PATCH]Fix me add subj

[Casey Schaufler]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2008 15:55:51 Stephen Smalley wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:34 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 18 August 2008 06:04:25 Chu Li wrote:
>>>       
>>>>   I have made a patch for "Fixme add subj" in auditd.c. This is for the
>>>> latest codes.
>>>>         
>>> Now that the audit svn is open for new work...I started to apply this
>>> patch. But then I got to thinking about SMACK. It probably does not like
>>> us to get selinux labels. I was wondering if we need to try to get its
>>> label, too? And I was wondering if both SE Linux and SMACK could be
>>> running at the same time? If they can, do we collect both labels?
>>>       
>> They are exclusive of one another, and they both provide the process
>> label via /proc/pid/attr/current.  libselinux wraps that kernel
>> interface with getcon() (for current context) and getpidcon() (for
>> context of a given pid), which internally handle the allocation of the
>> buffer and will deal with label translation if using mcstransd.
>>
>> So if you want the code to work with either, you'd directly
>> read /proc/pid/attr/current and display the resulting string.  If you
>> want to be SELinux-specific and include functionality like MLS label
>> translation, you'd use getpidcon(3).
>>     
>
> Thanks, that's very helpful. I think we want the raw data and then do context 
> translations later in the parsing library if someone asks for it

That works for Smack.

Thank you.