From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Abnormal End of Processes
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:06:10 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working on some code that detects abnormal events based on 
> audit system events. One kind of event that we currently have no visibility for is
> when a program terminates due to segfault - which should never happen on a
> production machine. And if it did, you'd want to investigate it. Attached is a
> patch that collects these events and sends them into the audit system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>

I'd suggest taking that into a separate function somewhere in kernel/audit*.c;
no need to clutter fs/exec.c with it.  Leave if (unlikely(audit_enabled)) in
inlined wrapper as usual, pass signr as argument...