linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

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Message-ID: <20071026224233.GK3660@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:42:33 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, chrisw@...s-sol.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

* Tony Jones (tonyj@...e.de) wrote:
> From: Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>
> Minor performance enhancement.
> 
> Thread flag TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is not cleared for new children when audit 
> context creation has been disabled (auditctl -e0). This can cause new children 
> forked from a parent created when audit was enabled to not take the fastest 
> syscall path thru entry.S
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>

Yeah, I think that's the right thing to do.  Doesn't have an
audit_context anyway.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
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