Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] audit: clean up audit queue handling

[Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>]

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:13 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> This set of patches cleans up a number of corner cases in the management
> of the audit queue.
> 
> Richard Guy Briggs (7):
>   audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time
>   audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception
>   audit: allow systemd to use queue reserves
>   audit: wake up threads if queue switched from limited to unlimited
>   audit: allow audit_cmd_mutex holders to use reserves
>   audit: wake up audit_backlog_wait queue when auditd goes away.
>   audit: wake up kauditd_thread after auditd registers
> 
>  kernel/audit.c |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Due to the fact that these patches were posted late in the 4.3-rcX cycle, I've 
decided not to merge these into linux-audit#next for the upcoming merge 
window.  I still need to take a closer look and properly review these patches, 
but I wanted to let you know why I haven't acted on them yet.

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paul moore
security @ redhat