Test first to see if there are any userspace multicast listeners bound to the socket before starting the multicast send work.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]> --- kernel/audit.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 0da57b6..6e8d137 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) struct sk_buff *copy; struct nlmsghdr *nlh; + if (!netlink_has_listeners(audit_sock, AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG)) + return; /* * The seemingly wasteful skb_copy() is necessary because the original * kaudit unicast socket sends up messages with nlmsg_len set to the -- 1.7.1 -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
