On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 19:11 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> If audit_filter_task() nacks the new thread it makes sense
> to clear TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT which can be copied from parent
> by dup_task_struct().
> 
> A wrong TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is not really bad but it triggers
> the "slow" audit paths in entry.S to ensure the task can not
> miss audit_syscall_*() calls, this is pointless if the task
> has no ->audit_context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Steve Grubb <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>

Richard, please pick this up into your tree.

> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 9845cb3..95293ab 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -943,8 +943,10 @@ int audit_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
>               return 0; /* Return if not auditing. */
>  
>       state = audit_filter_task(tsk, &key);
> -     if (state == AUDIT_DISABLED)
> +     if (state == AUDIT_DISABLED) {
> +             clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT);
>               return 0;
> +     }
>  
>       if (!(context = audit_alloc_context(state))) {
>               kfree(key);


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