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Re: [PATCH] Add audit uid to netlink credentials

To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add audit uid to netlink credentials
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:53:44 -0500
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Audit Discussion <linux-audit@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Organization: National Security Agency
References: <20050204165840.GA2320@IBM-BWN8ZTBWA01.austin.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0502080658310.32526@kaber.coreworks.de> <1107956079.17568.42.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20050209141945.GA28864@yakov.inr.ac.ru> <20050209164929.GA30007@yakov.inr.ac.ru> <420A5BE1.4000003@trash.net>
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On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:52, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Could you explain how this can happen ? From what I can see whenever data
> is queued to the receive queue the input function is called immediately
> through sk->sk_data_ready() -> netlink_data_ready() -> nlk->data_ready()
> and processes all queued packets, except in the case you pointed out,
> when audit_netlink_sem is already taken.

More packets may be queued by another sender while audit_receive() is
still processing the original one, so it will process them too.

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Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency


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