[PATCH 6/6] audit: send multicast messages only if there are listeners

Test first to see if there are any userspace multicast listeners bound to the socket before starting the multicast send work. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index d272cc1..33531d7 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) struct audit_net *aunet = net_generic(&init_net, audit_net_id); struct sock *sock = aunet->nlsk; + if (!netlink_has_listeners(sock, AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG)) + return; + /* * The seemingly wasteful skb_copy() rather than bumping the refcount * using skb_get() is necessary because non-standard mods are made to -- 1.7.1