[RFC PATCH 0/7] audit: clean up audit queue handling

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 15/10/27, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:13 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > This set of patches cleans up a number of corner cases in the management
> > of the audit queue.
> > 
> > Richard Guy Briggs (7):
> >   audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time
> >   audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception
> >   audit: allow systemd to use queue reserves
> >   audit: wake up threads if queue switched from limited to unlimited
> >   audit: allow audit_cmd_mutex holders to use reserves
> >   audit: wake up audit_backlog_wait queue when auditd goes away.
> >   audit: wake up kauditd_thread after auditd registers
> > 
> >  kernel/audit.c |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Due to the fact that these patches were posted late in the 4.3-rcX cycle, I've 
> decided not to merge these into linux-audit#next for the upcoming merge 
> window.  I still need to take a closer look and properly review these patches, 
> but I wanted to let you know why I haven't acted on them yet.

No problem, at least it is out of my queue, as long as we have enough
time to hit the next one.  :)

> paul moore

- RGB

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