Re: [RFC] audit: avoid soft lockup in audit_log_start()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:03:25 -0400 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> > --- a/kernel/audit.c
> > +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> > @@ -1215,9 +1215,10 @@ 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
> 
> I think this is the right(ish) fix, at least it gets at the real bug.
> 829199197a430dade2519d54f5545c4a094393b8 definitely is the problem.

um, which idiot wrote that?


Thngs are somewhat foggy at present.  I have two patches from
Dan/Chuck:

Subject: audit: fix soft lockups due to loop in audit_log_start() wh,en audit_backlog_limit exceeded
Subject: audit: two efficiency fixes for audit mechanism

and two from Luiz:

Subject: audit: flush_hold_queue(): don't drop queued SKBs
Subject: audit: kaudit_send_skb(): make non-blocking call to netlink_unicast()

and now a protopatch from Konstantin which eparis likes.

So, umm, guys, can you please devote a bit of time to working out what
we should do here?