From db897319401e1c111aef59deadd59ea08e11d879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Duval Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:11:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] audit: efficiency fix 1: only wake up if queue shorter than backlog limit These and similar errors were seen on a patched 3.8 kernel when the audit subsystem was overrun during boot: udevd[876]: worker [887] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100 udevd[876]: worker [887] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:40:00.0' udevd[876]: worker [880] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100 udevd[876]: worker [880] failed while handling '/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1/event1' udevadm settle - timeout of 180 seconds reached, the event queue contains: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1/event1 (3995) /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/INT3F0D:00 (4034) audit: audit_backlog=258 > audit_backlog_limit=256 audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=256 The change below increases the efficiency of the audit code and prevents it from being overrun: Only issue a wake_up in kauditd if the length of the skb queue is less than the backlog limit. Otherwise, threads waiting in wait_for_auditd() will simply wake up, discover that the queue is still too long for them to proceed, and go back to sleep. This results in wasted context switches and machine cycles. kauditd_thread() is the only function that removes buffers from audit_skb_queue so we can't race. If we did, the timeout in wait_for_auditd() would expire and the waiting thread would continue. See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/479 Signed-off-by: Dan Duval Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- kernel/audit.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 09e287b..854f482 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -462,8 +462,10 @@ static int kauditd_thread(void *dummy) flush_hold_queue(); skb = skb_dequeue(&audit_skb_queue); - wake_up(&audit_backlog_wait); + if (skb) { + if (skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) <= audit_backlog_limit) + wake_up(&audit_backlog_wait); if (audit_pid) kauditd_send_skb(skb); else -- 2.7.4