If audit_filter_task() nacks the new thread it makes sense to clear TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT which can be copied from parent by dup_task_struct(). A wrong TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is not really bad but it triggers the "slow" audit paths in entry.S to ensure the task can not miss audit_syscall_*() calls, this is pointless if the task has no ->audit_context. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com&gt; Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/auditsc.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 9845cb3..95293ab 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -943,8 +943,10 @@ int audit_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk) return 0; /* Return if not auditing. */ state = audit_filter_task(tsk, &key); - if (state == AUDIT_DISABLED) + if (state == AUDIT_DISABLED) { + clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT); return 0; + } if (!(context = audit_alloc_context(state))) { kfree(key); -- 1.5.5.1

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: Ack. - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs(a)redhat.com&gt; Senior Software Engineer Kernel Security AMER ENG Base Operating Systems Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635 Internal: (81) 32635 Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545