[PATCH 3/6] audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init

The kauditd_thread() task was started only after the auditd userspace daemon registers itself with kaudit. This was fine when only auditd consumed messages from the kaudit netlink unicast socket. With the addition of a multicast group to that socket it is more convenient to have the thread start on init of the kaudit kernel subsystem. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs(a)redhat.com&gt; --- This is a code clean up in preparation to add a multicast netlink socket to kaudit for read-only userspace clients such as systemd, in addition to the bidirectional audit userspace client. kernel/audit.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 1531efb..02a5d9e 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -676,16 +676,6 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) if (err) return err; - /* As soon as there's any sign of userspace auditd, - * start kauditd to talk to it */ - if (!kauditd_task) - kauditd_task = kthread_run(kauditd_thread, NULL, "kauditd"); - if (IS_ERR(kauditd_task)) { - err = PTR_ERR(kauditd_task); - kauditd_task = NULL; - return err; - } - loginuid = audit_get_loginuid(current); sessionid = audit_get_sessionid(current); security_task_getsecid(current, &sid); @@ -974,6 +964,10 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) else audit_sock->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; + kauditd_task = kthread_run(kauditd_thread, NULL, "kauditd"); + if (IS_ERR(kauditd_task)) + return PTR_ERR(kauditd_task); + skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue); skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue); audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED; -- 1.8.0.2