Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] audit: clean up audit queue handling

[Paul Moore]

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 02:43:18 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/10/27, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:13 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > This set of patches cleans up a number of corner cases in the management
> > > of the audit queue.
> > > 
> > > Richard Guy Briggs (7):
> > >   audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time
> > >   audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception
> > >   audit: allow systemd to use queue reserves
> > >   audit: wake up threads if queue switched from limited to unlimited
> > >   audit: allow audit_cmd_mutex holders to use reserves
> > >   audit: wake up audit_backlog_wait queue when auditd goes away.
> > >   audit: wake up kauditd_thread after auditd registers
> > >  
> > >  kernel/audit.c |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
> > >  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Due to the fact that these patches were posted late in the 4.3-rcX cycle,
> > I've decided not to merge these into linux-audit#next for the upcoming
> > merge window.  I still need to take a closer look and properly review
> > these patches, but I wanted to let you know why I haven't acted on them
> > yet.
> 
> No problem, at least it is out of my queue, as long as we have enough
> time to hit the next one.  :)

Definitely.  I just start getting twitchy about accepting non-trivial patches 
post -rc5(ish).

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

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