Re: [PATCH] selinux: add tracepoint on denials

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:49:24 +0200
ThiÃbaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the review! I'll send a new revision of the patch with the
> %x formatter and using the TP_CONDITION macro.
> 
> On adding further information to the trace event, I would prefer
> adding the strict minimum to be able to correlate the event with the
> avc message. The reason is that tracevents have a fixed size (see
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/events.txt). For

Wait! What?

Where in that document does it say that trace events have a fixed size.
We have a lot of dynamically sized trace events.

> instance, we would need to decide on a maximum size for the string
> representation of the list of permissions. This would also duplicate
> the reporting done in the avc audit event. I'll simply add the pid as
> part of the printk, which should be sufficient for the correlation.
> 

Please take a look at samples/trace_events/trace_events_sample.h

and read the example on __print_symbolic().

I think that's what you are looking for.

-- Steve