When the audit queue overflows and times out (audit_backlog_wait_time), the
audit queue overflow timeout is set to zero.  Once the audit queue overflow
timeout condition recovers, the timeout should be reset to the original value.

See also:
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/473

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Duval <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/audit.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 7b0e23a..772725e 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ static int  audit_rate_limit;
 
 /* Number of outstanding audit_buffers allowed. */
 static int     audit_backlog_limit = 64;
-static int     audit_backlog_wait_time = 60 * HZ;
+#define AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME (60 * HZ)
+static int     audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME;
 static int     audit_backlog_wait_overflow = 0;
 
 /* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */
@@ -1134,6 +1135,8 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context 
*ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                return NULL;
        }
 
+       audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME;
+
        ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type);
        if (!ab) {
                audit_log_lost("out of memory in audit_log_start");
-- 
1.7.1

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