[PATCH] audit: allow unlimited backlog queue

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 16:50:11 UTC 2014


On 14/01/15, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 05:59:16 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Since audit can already be disabled by "audit=0" on the kernel boot line, or
> > by the command "auditctl -e 0", it would be more useful to have the
> > audit_backlog_limit set to zero mean effectively unlimited (limited only by
> > system resources).
> 
> I don't see a useful purpose to this.

That's up to you.  On your side it is a documentation question.  It is
already implemented in the kernel.  The rationale I thought was fairly
clear.  The flexibility is there.  A warning would be useful.

> -Steve

- RGB

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