From f48a942926c58e4b2dfc3f21c58579d5435841ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Guy Briggs Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:15:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception Should auditd spawn threads, allow all members of its thread group to use the audit_backlog_limit reserves to bypass the queue limits too. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs [PM: minor upstream merge tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore --- kernel/audit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 07d60e4b2af8..60c9c5adc5be 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, return NULL; if (gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) { - if (audit_pid && audit_pid == current->pid) + if (audit_pid && audit_pid == current->tgid) gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM; else reserve = 0;