From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752355AbbINTiA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:38:00 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-f53.google.com ([209.85.192.53]:35782 "EHLO mail-qg0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752313AbbINTh7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:37:59 -0400 From: Paul Moore To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: v.rathor@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audit@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] audit: add warning that an old auditd may be starved out by a new auditd Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: <19236209.prUueVMe32@sifl> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150913160819.GT8140@madcap2.tricolour.ca> References: <5e786f07b6d8a19927c70345c14bd1a452164d38.1441644314.git.rgb@redhat.com> <20150913160819.GT8140@madcap2.tricolour.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, September 13, 2015 12:08:19 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 15/09/11, Paul Moore wrote: > > Although I suppose if nothing else we could send a record indicating > > that another auditd attempted to replace it ... if we can send it > > great, drop the new request and be glad we audited it, if we can't > > send it, reset the auditd tracking. > > This is actually a good idea. This would go well with your last patch to try harder on netlink send failures. On a related note, with the merge window closed I just rotated the audit tree so that patch is now in linux-audit#next. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com