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

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Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:27:28 -0500
From:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eparis@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, rgb@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-audit@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough

On Friday, March 07, 2014 07:48:01 PM David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:52:02 -0500
> 
> > Audit is non-tolerant to failure and loss.
> 
> Netlink is not a loss-less transport.

Perhaps. But in all our testing over the years its been very good.

-Steve
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