Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 13/16] audit: track container nesting

From: Paul Moore
Date: Wed Mar 18 2020 - 17:08:47 EST


On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 6:42 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2020-03-13 12:47, Paul Moore wrote:

...

> > It has been a while since I last looked at the patchset, but my
> > concern over the prefered use of the ACID number vs the ACID object is
> > that the number offers no reuse protection where the object does. I
> > really would like us to use the object everywhere it is possible.
>
> Ok, so I take it from this that I go ahead with the dual format since
> the wrapper funciton to convert from object to ID strips away object
> information negating any benefit of favouring the object pointer. I'll
> look at the remaining calls that use a contid (rather than contobj) and
> convert all that I can over to storing an object using the dual counters
> that track process exits versus signal2 and trace references.

Well, as I said in the other thread, I'm not sure we need a full two
counters; I think one counter and a simple flag should suffice.
Otherwise that sounds good for the next iteration.

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paul moore
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