* [PATCH] fix audit_init failure path
@ 2006-03-07 3:40 Amy Griffis
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From: Amy Griffis @ 2006-03-07 3:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-audit
Make audit_init() failure path handle situations where the audit_panic()
action is not AUDIT_FAIL_PANIC (default is AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK). Other uses
of audit_sock are not reached unless audit's netlink message handler is
properly registered. Bug noticed by Peter Staubach.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 0a813d2..75861e3 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -519,8 +519,9 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
THIS_MODULE);
if (!audit_sock)
audit_panic("cannot initialize netlink socket");
+ else
+ audit_sock->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
- audit_sock->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
audit_initialized = 1;
audit_enabled = audit_default;
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