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    apparmor: disable showing the mode as part of a secid to secctx · 524d8e14
    John Johansen authored
    Displaying the mode as part of the seectx takes up unnecessary memory,
    makes it so we can't use refcounted secctx so we need to alloc/free on
    every conversion from secid to secctx and introduces a space that
    could be potentially mishandled by tooling.
    
    Eg. In an audit record we get
    
      subj_type=firefix (enforce)
    
    Having the mode reported is not necessary, and might even be confusing
    eg. when writing an audit rule to match the above record field you
    would use
    
      -F subj_type=firefox
    
    ie. the mode is not included. AppArmor provides ways to find the mode
    without reporting as part of the secctx. So disable this by default
    before its use is wide spread and we can't. For now we add a sysctl
    to control the behavior as we can't guarantee no one is using this.
    Acked-by: default avatarAndrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
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