[PATCH] LSPP audit enablement: storing selinux ocontext and scontext

Timothy R. Chavez tinytim at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 28 15:27:39 UTC 2005


On Thursday 28 July 2005 09:49, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday 25 July 2005 14:28, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > Bugs in the patch?  I don't doubt you, I'm just curious...  Can you
> > cite?
> 
> Another issue...the patch is too eager to call audit_panic(). It is more 
> correct to fail the syscall and let the app handle failure than bring the 
> machine to its knees.
> 
> -Steve

But audit_panic() doesn't just panic the system or it doesn't have to at 
least.  You're able to set the 'audit_failure' such that when audit_panic() 
is called it can fail silently, print to syslog, or panic the system.

-tim

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