On 2017-06-15 11:29, Paul Moore wrote:
> From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
> 
> When the auditd connection is reset, either intentionally or due to
> a failure, any records that were in the main backlog queue would not
> be sent in a multicast broadcast.  This patch fixes this problem by
> not flushing the main backlog queue on a connection reset, the main
> kauditd_thread() will take care of that normally.
> 
> Resolves: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/41
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>

Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>

> ---
>  kernel/audit.c |    5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index e1e2b3abfb93..7cad70214b81 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -605,11 +605,10 @@ static void auditd_reset(const struct auditd_connection 
> *ac)
>       if (ac_old)
>               call_rcu(&ac_old->rcu, auditd_conn_free);
>  
> -     /* flush all of the main and retry queues to the hold queue */
> +     /* flush the retry queue to the hold queue, but don't touch the main
> +      * queue since we need to process that normally for multicast */
>       while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&audit_retry_queue)))
>               kauditd_hold_skb(skb);
> -     while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&audit_queue)))
> -             kauditd_hold_skb(skb);
>  }
>  
>  /**

- RGB

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