Truncated log entries

[Peter Martuccelli]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:24, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:13, Barry Roomberg wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora Core 2 Kernel: 2.6.5-1.358
> > I'm logging activity in a directory (thanks Stephen).
> > 
> > I occasionally get what look like to be truncated log entries such as:
> > 
> > Oct 27 11:24:21 mstoppel1 kernel: audit(1098890661.257:8894633):
> > avc:  granted  { read } for  pid=17834 exed=500 fsuid=500 egid=500
> > sgid=500 fsgid=500
> > 
> > "exed=500" ???
> > 
> > also:
> > Oct 27 11:26:47 mstoppel1 kernel: =500 fsgid=500
> > 
> > 
> > Any idea why?  They are rare and interspersed with good entries.
> 
> /me guesses that the kernel audit framework isn't SMP-safe.  Is anyone
> at RedHat looking into this?  It was already bugzilla'd by Tom London.

I want to verify that people have only seen this issue on SMP systems.

I can work with Dan on getting a test together to try and reproduce the
problem.


Regards,

Peter