Move the calculations of values after the allocation in case the allocation fails. This avoids wasting effort in the rare case that it fails, but more importantly saves us extra logic to release the tty ref. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/auditsc.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 71e14d8..33dafa7 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1985,14 +1985,15 @@ static void audit_log_set_loginuid(kuid_t koldloginuid, kuid_t kloginuid, if (!audit_enabled) return; + ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN); + if (!ab) + return; + uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(current)); oldloginuid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, koldloginuid); loginuid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, kloginuid), tty = audit_get_tty(current); - ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN); - if (!ab) - return; audit_log_format(ab, "pid=%d uid=%u", task_pid_nr(current), uid); audit_log_task_context(ab); audit_log_format(ab, " old-auid=%u auid=%u tty=%s old-ses=%u ses=%u res=%d", -- 1.7.1