Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:49:37 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r189063 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <20090226134937.13523qtfgxc9ik7k@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902261056280.16988@fledge.watson.org> References: <200902261056.n1QAuDTL025375@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902261056280.16988@fledge.watson.org>
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Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 26 Feb 2009
10:57:13 +0000 (GMT)):
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> Log:
>> Add static tracing for privilege checking:
>>
>> priv:kernel:priv_check:priv_ok fires for granted privileges
>> priv:kernel:priv_check:priv_errr fires for denied privileges
>>
>> The first argument is the requested privilege number. The naming
>> convention is a little different from the OpenSolaris equivilent
>> because we can't have '-' in probefunc names, and our privilege
>> namespace is different.
>
> A typical tracing command might be:
>
> dtrace -n 'priv:::priv_ok { trace(execname); trace(arg0);}'
>
> arg0 requires manual interpretation using /usr/include/sys/priv.h.
Theoretically it is possible to write a little script which takes
priv.h and generates a little bit of dtrace stuff which allows to
print out strings instead of numbers. But I think this is a matter of
motivation...
I would also use printf("program: %s, priv: $d\n", execname, arg0) or
something similar with printf, but this is cosmetics.
Should we create a repository of dtrace scripts in /usr/share or
wherever? For the linuxulator I have several scripts in my
linuxulator-dtrace branch (some more, some less useful for
non-developers).
Bye,
Alexander.
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