audit: reset audit backlog wait time after error recovery
authorRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 03:03:51 +0000 (23:03 -0400)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:27:30 +0000 (22:27 -0500)
When the audit queue overflows and times out (audit_backlog_wait_time), the
audit queue overflow timeout is set to zero.  Once the audit queue overflow
timeout condition recovers, the timeout should be reset to the original value.

See also:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/473

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.8-rc4+
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Duval <dan.duval@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
kernel/audit.c

index dd18747..6cd2ecc 100644 (file)
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ static int  audit_rate_limit;
 
 /* Number of outstanding audit_buffers allowed. */
 static int     audit_backlog_limit = 64;
-static int     audit_backlog_wait_time = 60 * HZ;
+#define AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME (60 * HZ)
+static int     audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME;
 static int     audit_backlog_wait_overflow = 0;
 
 /* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */
@@ -1282,6 +1283,8 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                return NULL;
        }
 
+       audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME;
+
        ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type);
        if (!ab) {
                audit_log_lost("out of memory in audit_log_start");