[PATCH 3/15] sanitize audit_ipc_obj()

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Dec 17 09:53:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:24:40PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > > +		struct {
> > > +			uid_t			uid;
> > > +			gid_t			gid;
> > > +			mode_t			mode;
> > > +			u32			osid;
> > > +		} ipc;
> > 
> > 'osid' should be converted into 'secid' someday.
> 
> Eh?  Do you mean the field name there or the actual output?  Either is
> trivial, of course, but the latter is up to userland folks and the
> former alone seems to be rather pointless...

I was thinking in terms of the kernel API, where 'secid' is the preferred 
name for security identifiers ('sid' being an SELinux-specific term and 
also conflicting with 'session id').  Given that it's exposed to userland, 
I guess it's too late.


- James
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James Morris
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