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Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:33:52 -0400
From:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
To:	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chrisw@...s-sol.org, viro@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

On Monday 29 October 2007 07:15:30 pm Tony Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > So when audit is re-enabled, how do you make that task auditable?
>
> No idea. How do you do it currently? HINT: current->audit_context == NULL
> for these tasks.  If !audit_enabled, then audit_alloc() is not going to
> allocate an audit_context for the task.

We are looking into this - at one time it did. Someone should follow up with a 
path correcting this soon. But I doubt the audit system will work correctly 
if the flag gets removed as there is no good way to add it again later.

-Steve
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