Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough

David Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net&gt; writes: > From: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org&gt; > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:30:04 -0800 > >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:50:19 -0800 ebiederm(a)xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: >> >>> >>> Modify audit_send_reply to directly use a non-blocking send and >>> to return an error on failure (if anyone cares). >>> >>> Modify audit_list_rules_send to use audit_send_reply and give up >>> if we can not send a packet. >>> >>> Merge audit_list_rules into iaudit_list_rules_send as the code >>> is now sufficiently simple to not justify to callers. >>> >>> Kill audit_send_list, audit_send_reply_thread because using >>> a separate thread for replies is not needed when sending >>> packets syncrhonously. >> >> Nothing much seems to be happening here? Well you picked up the patch that fixes the worst of the bugs that I was complaining about. Beyond that I don't know what makes sense.