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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/audit.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 0117e7d947fd..3dd8bde2c00f 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1542,6 +1542,20 @@ static void audit_receive(struct sk_buff *skb) nlh = nlmsg_next(nlh, &len); } audit_ctl_unlock(); + + /* can't block with the ctrl lock, so penalize the sender now */ + if (audit_backlog_limit && + (skb_queue_len(&audit_queue) > audit_backlog_limit)) { + DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); + + /* wake kauditd to try and flush the queue */ + wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait); + + add_wait_queue_exclusive(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait); + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + schedule_timeout(audit_backlog_wait_time); + remove_wait_queue(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait); + } } /* Log information about who is connecting to the audit multicast socket */ @@ -1825,7 +1839,9 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, * task_tgid_vnr() since auditd_pid is set in audit_receive_msg() * using a PID anchored in the caller's namespace * 2. generator holding the audit_cmd_mutex - we don't want to block - * while holding the mutex */ + * while holding the mutex, although we do penalize the sender + * later in audit_receive() when it is safe to block + */ if (!(auditd_test_task(current) || audit_ctl_owner_current())) { long stime = audit_backlog_wait_time; |