Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Mar 04 2014 - 16:30:19 EST


On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:50:19 -0800 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

>
> Modify audit_send_reply to directly use a non-blocking send and
> to return an error on failure (if anyone cares).
>
> Modify audit_list_rules_send to use audit_send_reply and give up
> if we can not send a packet.
>
> Merge audit_list_rules into iaudit_list_rules_send as the code
> is now sufficiently simple to not justify to callers.
>
> Kill audit_send_list, audit_send_reply_thread because using
> a separate thread for replies is not needed when sending
> packets syncrhonously.

Nothing much seems to be happening here?

In an earlier email you said "While reading through 3.14-rc1 I found a
pretty siginficant mishandling of network namespaces in the recent
audit changes." Were those recent audit changes a post-3.14 thing? And
what is the user-visible effect of the mishandling?

Thanks.
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