Re: [PATCH 1/2] audit: print error message when fail to create audit socket

[Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 01/08/2014 08:53 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:10:41 +0800 Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> print the error message and then return -ENOMEM.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/kernel/audit.c
>> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
>> @@ -1083,12 +1083,11 @@ static int __net_init audit_net_init(struct net *net)
>>  	pr_info("audit: initializing netlink socket in namespace\n");
>>  
>>  	aunet->nlsk = netlink_kernel_create(net, NETLINK_AUDIT, &cfg);
>> -	if (aunet->nlsk == NULL)
>> -		return -ENOMEM;
>> -	if (!aunet->nlsk)
>> +	if (aunet->nlsk == NULL) {
>>  		audit_panic("cannot initialize netlink socket in namespace");
>> -	else
>> -		aunet->nlsk->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +	}
>> +	aunet->nlsk->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
> 
> What kernel version are these against?  Something ancient, I expect -
> audit_net_init() doesn't exist.
> 
> Please check current kernels, redo and resend the patches if anything
> needs changing?

This patch is against Richard Guy Briggs's audit tree. the current kernel
doesn't have this problem.

BTW, Richard & Eric, when do you plan to push these changes to the upstream?
there are a lot of changes in Richard's tree.