Re: [PATCH] audit: use supplied gfp_mask from audit_buffer in kauditd_send_multicast_skb

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:09:27 -0500, Richard Guy Briggs said: > Eric Paris explains: Since kauditd_send_multicast_skb() gets called in > audit_log_end(), which can come from any context (aka even a sleeping > context) GFP_KERNEL can't be used. Since the audit_buffer knows what > context it should use, pass that down and use that. > > See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/16/542 > > Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu&gt; > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > > kernel/audit.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c > index 7b83c55..ce484fb 100644 I was reliably triggering 3-4 BUGs an hour, and with this patch applied I've gone 9 hours without seeing one. So feel free to add a Tested-By: when it goes out.