[RFC][PATCH] selinux: Report result in avc messages

[Daniel J Walsh]

How about permitted rather then allowed.

On 04/29/2014 10:59 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:54 -0700, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> Requested for Android in order to distinguish denials that are not in
>> fact breaking anything yet due to permissive domains versus denials
>> that are being enforced, but seems generally useful.  result field was
>> already in the selinux audit data structure and was being passed to
>> avc_audit() but wasn't being used.  Seems to cause no harm to ausearch
>> or audit2allow to add it as a field.  Comments?
> I think it's a great idea, but I'm worried that Steve is going to get
> grumpy because an AVC record is going to have a result= field which is
> similar, but not necessarily related to the res= field of a SYSCALL
> record.  Seems easily confused (although probably 9999 times out of
> 10000 they will be the same)
>
> So while I wholeheartedly think we should take the idea, I wonder if
> someone can dream up a name that isn't confusingly similar...
>
> I can't think of anything...
>
> -Eric
>
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