On Thursday, October 22, 2015 02:53:20 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
 When auditd is restarted, even though the kauditd_thread is present,
it
 remains dormant until the next audit log message is queued.
 
 Wake up the kauditd_thread in the kauditd_wait queue immediately when
 auditd registers its availability to drain the queue.
 
 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>
 ---
  kernel/audit.c |    2 ++
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) 
See my 6/7 comment ... this could/should go in the auditd_register() function.
 diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
 index 688fa1e..369cfcc 100644
 --- a/kernel/audit.c
 +++ b/kernel/audit.c
 @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
 nlmsghdr *nlh) audit_sock = skb->sk;
  			if (!audit_pid)
  				wake_up(&audit_backlog_wait);
 +			if (audit_pid)
 +				wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait);
  		}
  		if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT) {
  			err = audit_set_rate_limit(s.rate_limit); 
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paul moore
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