[PATCH 2/2] audit: don't reset working wait time accidentally with auditd

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 00:34:02 UTC 2015


During a queue overflow condition while we are waiting for auditd to drain the
queue to make room for regular messages, we don't want a successful auditd that
has bypassed the queue check to reset the backlog wait time.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index b333f03..73293ea 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1395,7 +1395,8 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	audit_backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master;
+	if (!reserve)
+		audit_backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master;
 
 	ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type);
 	if (!ab) {
-- 
1.7.1




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