Re: [PATCH ghak138 v2 3/4] audit: free audit_proctitle only on task exit

[Paul Moore]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 3:33 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since audit_proctitle is generated at syscall exit time, its value is
> used immediately and cached for the next syscall.  Since this is the
> case, then only clear it at task exit time.  Otherwise, there is no
> point in caching the value OR bearing the overhead of regenerating it.
>
> Fixes: 12c5e81d3fd0 ("audit: prepare audit_context for use in calling contexts beyond syscalls")
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Merged into audit/next, thanks.

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