linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time

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Date:	Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:03:49 -0500
From:	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	v.rathor@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:14 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> After auditd has recovered from an overflowed queue, the first process
> that doesn't use reserves to make it through the queue checks should
> reset the audit backlog wait time to the configured value.  After that,
> there is no need to keep resetting it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index a72ad37..daefd81 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct
> audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, return NULL;
>  	}
> 
> -	if (!reserve)
> +	if (!reserve && !audit_backlog_wait_time)
>  		audit_backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master;
> 
>  	ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type);

This looks fine to me, I'm going to add it to audit#next-queue.

Also, can you think of a good reason why "audit_backlog_wait_overflow" exists?  
I'm going to replace it with the simple "audit_backlog_wait_time = 0;" unless 
you can think of a solid reason not to do so.  It seems much more obvious and 
readable to me.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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