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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:08:23 -0500
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@....sgi.com, davem@...emloft.net, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] audit: send multicast messages only if there are listeners

Test first to see if there are any userspace multicast listeners bound to the
socket before starting the multicast send work.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 0da57b6..6e8d137 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct sk_buff *copy;
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
 
+	if (!netlink_has_listeners(audit_sock, AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG))
+		return;
 	/*
 	 * The seemingly wasteful skb_copy() is necessary because the original
 	 * kaudit unicast socket sends up messages with nlmsg_len set to the
-- 
1.7.1

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