Forwarding a note from Mounir which did not copy linux-audit...
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:20 -0500, Mounir Bsaibes wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:18 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Ok, then anyone who disagrees with failing the syscall speak up now...
> If this is the preferred operation, please say so. Klaus--I, too, am
> calling for your input.
While it can be one of the configurable options for panic, failing the
system call is not enough in all cases. Due to the requirement that the
system must not loose audit record, the system must panic, when
resources are exhausted.
Refer to the linux-audit archive of January 2005.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2005-January/msg00030.html
Similar issue was discussed for what to do when audit log is full and
what to do when kernel resources are exhausted.