This was replaced with a kauditd_wait kthread long ago, back in: b7d1125817c (AUDIT: Send netlink messages from a separate kernel thread) Update the stale comment. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso(a)suse.de&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 1ffc2e059027..8fd735190c12 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -2365,7 +2365,7 @@ int audit_signal_info(int sig, struct task_struct *t) * * We can not do a netlink send inside an irq context because it blocks (last * arg, flags, is not set to MSG_DONTWAIT), so the audit buffer is placed on a - * queue and a tasklet is scheduled to remove them from the queue outside the + * queue and a kthread is scheduled to remove them from the queue outside the * irq context. May be called in any context. */ void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab) -- 2.26.2