From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:27:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: audit: fix endless wait in audit_log_start() X-Git-Tag: v4.0~3219^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ac1c8d5deba65513b6a82c35e89e73996c8e0d6;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-amlogic.git audit: fix endless wait in audit_log_start() After commit 829199197a43 ("kernel/audit.c: avoid negative sleep durations") audit emitters will block forever if userspace daemon cannot handle backlog. After the timeout the waiting loop turns into busy loop and runs until daemon dies or returns back to work. This is a minimal patch for that bug. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Chuck Anderson Cc: Dan Duval Cc: Dave Kleikamp Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 91e53d0..7b0e23a 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1117,9 +1117,10 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, sleep_time = timeout_start + audit_backlog_wait_time - jiffies; - if ((long)sleep_time > 0) + if ((long)sleep_time > 0) { wait_for_auditd(sleep_time); - continue; + continue; + } } if (audit_rate_check() && printk_ratelimit()) printk(KERN_WARNING