From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Moore Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:03:49 -0500 Message-ID: <1597895.v7jZTs1jqP@sifl> References: <2b43c5d14e97945ea743f2e93e766834c93404fd.1445539473.git.rgb@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2b43c5d14e97945ea743f2e93e766834c93404fd.1445539473.git.rgb@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, v.rathor@gmail.com List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:14 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > After auditd has recovered from an overflowed queue, the first process > that doesn't use reserves to make it through the queue checks should > reset the audit backlog wait time to the configured value. After that, > there is no need to keep resetting it. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs > --- > kernel/audit.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c > index a72ad37..daefd81 100644 > --- a/kernel/audit.c > +++ b/kernel/audit.c > @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct > audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, return NULL; > } > > - if (!reserve) > + if (!reserve && !audit_backlog_wait_time) > audit_backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master; > > ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type); This looks fine to me, I'm going to add it to audit#next-queue. Also, can you think of a good reason why "audit_backlog_wait_overflow" exists? I'm going to replace it with the simple "audit_backlog_wait_time = 0;" unless you can think of a solid reason not to do so. It seems much more obvious and readable to me. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com