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Originally reported by Adam and Dusty, it appears we have a small race window in kauditd_thread(), as documented in the Fedora BZ: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459326#c35 "This issue is partly due to the read-copy nature of RCU, and partly due to how we sync the auditd_connection state across kauditd_thread and the audit control channel. The kauditd_thread thread is always running so it can service the record queues and emit the multicast messages, if it happens to be just past the "main_queue" label, but before the "if (sk == NULL || ...)" if-statement which calls auditd_reset() when the new auditd connection is registered it could end up resetting the auditd connection, regardless of if it is valid or not. This is a rather small window and the variable nature of multi-core scheduling explains why this is proving rather difficult to reproduce." The fix is to have functions only call auditd_reset() when they believe that the kernel/auditd connection is still valid, e.g. non-NULL, and to have these callers pass their local copy of the auditd_connection pointer to auditd_reset() where it can be compared with the current connection state before resetting. If the caller has a stale state tracking pointer then the reset is ignored. We also make a small change to kauditd_thread() so that if the kernel/auditd connection is dead we skip the retry queue and send the records straight to the hold queue. This is necessary as we used to rely on auditd_reset() to occasionally purge the retry queue but we are going to be calling the reset function much less now and we want to make sure the retry queue doesn't grow unbounded. Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dusty Mabe <dustymabe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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