linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough

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Message-Id: <20140304145037.d46ee775d293dd1ad60aa8e3@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2014 14:50:37 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rgb@...hat.com,
	eparis@...hat.com, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket
 buffer is large enough

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:41:16 -0800 ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:
> 
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:30:04 -0800
> >
> >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:50:19 -0800 ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Modify audit_send_reply to directly use a non-blocking send and
> >>> to return an error on failure (if anyone cares).
> >>> 
> >>> Modify audit_list_rules_send to use audit_send_reply and give up
> >>> if we can not send a packet.
> >>> 
> >>> Merge audit_list_rules into iaudit_list_rules_send as the code
> >>> is now sufficiently simple to not justify to callers.
> >>> 
> >>> Kill audit_send_list, audit_send_reply_thread because using
> >>> a separate thread for replies is not needed when sending
> >>> packets syncrhonously.
> >> 
> >> Nothing much seems to be happening here?
> 
> Well you picked up the patch that fixes the worst of the bugs that I was
> complaining about.  Beyond that I don't know what makes sense.

Oh, so I did.  I wasn't planning on merging it myself, hoping that
someone who hasaclue will step in.  Help.

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