[PATCH V1] audit: add warning that an old auditd may be starved out by a new auditd

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Mon Sep 14 19:37:56 UTC 2015


On Sunday, September 13, 2015 12:08:19 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/09/11, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Although I suppose if nothing else we could send a record indicating
> > that another auditd attempted to replace it ... if we can send it
> > great, drop the new request and be glad we audited it, if we can't
> > send it, reset the auditd tracking.
> 
> This is actually a good idea.

This would go well with your last patch to try harder on netlink send 
failures.  On a related note, with the merge window closed I just rotated the 
audit tree so that patch is now in linux-audit#next.

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paul moore
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