[PATCH] audit: we don't need to __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING)

[Paul Moore]

On Wednesday, April 06, 2016 12:56:24 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 16/04/05, Paul Moore wrote:
> > From: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> > 
> > Remove the calls to __set_current_state() to mark the task as running
> > and do some related cleanup in wait_for_auditd() to limit the amount
> > of work we do when we aren't going to reschedule the current task.
> 
> Wow, the logic of this goes back to 9ad9ad38 (2005-06-22, AUDIT: Wait
> for backlog to clear when generating messages.)

Yeah, I didn't think much of it until Jiri submitted that last patch and 
figured I should check how we were doing handling the rescheduling in the rest 
of the code.  I think it stayed the way it was for so long because technically 
it wasn't hurting anything.

> > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> 
> These changes look good to me.
> 
> > ---
> > 
> >  kernel/audit.c |   12 +++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> > index 3a3e5de..f52fbef 100644
> > --- a/kernel/audit.c
> > +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> > 
> > @@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ restart:
> >  					attempts, audit_pid);
> >  				
> >  				set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> >  				schedule();
> > 
> > -				__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> > 
> >  				goto restart;
> >  			
> >  			}
> >  		
> >  		}
> > 
> > @@ -1324,15 +1323,14 @@ static inline void audit_get_stamp(struct
> > audit_context *ctx,> 
> >  static long wait_for_auditd(long sleep_time)
> >  {
> >  
> >  	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
> > 
> > -	set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > -	add_wait_queue_exclusive(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait);
> > 
> >  	if (audit_backlog_limit &&
> > 
> > -	    skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > audit_backlog_limit)
> > +	    skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > audit_backlog_limit) {
> > +		add_wait_queue_exclusive(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait);
> > +		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > 
> >  		sleep_time = schedule_timeout(sleep_time);
> > 
> > -
> > -	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> > -	remove_wait_queue(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait);
> > +		remove_wait_queue(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait);
> > +	}
> > 
> >  	return sleep_time;
> >  
> >  }
> 
> - RGB
> 
> --
> Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs at redhat.com>
> Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems,
> Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada
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