From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757190Ab3EXRn0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52230 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755968Ab3EXRnZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 19:39:25 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Al Viro , Andrew Morton Cc: Guy Streeter , Eric Paris , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] audit: wait_for_auditd() should use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE Message-ID: <20130524173925.GA17177@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org audit_log_start() does wait_for_auditd() in a loop until audit_backlog_wait_time passes or audit_skb_queue has a room. If signal_pending() is true this becomes a busy-wait loop, schedule() in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE won't block. Reported-by: Guy Streeter Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov --- x/kernel/audit.c +++ x/kernel/audit.c @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ static inline void audit_get_stamp(struc static void wait_for_auditd(unsigned long sleep_time) { DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); add_wait_queue(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait); if (audit_backlog_limit &&