[PATCH] drop EOE records from printk
authorSteve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:59:22 +0000 (16:59 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:16:06 +0000 (07:16 -0500)
Hi,

While we are looking at the printk issue, I see that its printk'ing the EOE
(end of event) records which is really not something that we need in syslog.
Its really intended for the realtime audit event stream handled by the audit
daemon. So, lets avoid printk'ing that record type.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
kernel/audit.c

index 6d7175c..10c4930 100644 (file)
@@ -1353,17 +1353,19 @@ void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
        if (!audit_rate_check()) {
                audit_log_lost("rate limit exceeded");
        } else {
+               struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(ab->skb);
                if (audit_pid) {
-                       struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(ab->skb);
                        nlh->nlmsg_len = ab->skb->len - NLMSG_SPACE(0);
                        skb_queue_tail(&audit_skb_queue, ab->skb);
                        ab->skb = NULL;
                        wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait);
-               } else if (printk_ratelimit()) {
-                       struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(ab->skb);
-                       printk(KERN_NOTICE "type=%d %s\n", nlh->nlmsg_type, ab->skb->data + NLMSG_SPACE(0));
-               } else {
-                       audit_log_lost("printk limit exceeded\n");
+               } else if (nlh->nlmsg_type != AUDIT_EOE) {
+                       if (printk_ratelimit()) {
+                               printk(KERN_NOTICE "type=%d %s\n",
+                                       nlh->nlmsg_type,
+                                       ab->skb->data + NLMSG_SPACE(0));
+                       } else
+                               audit_log_lost("printk limit exceeded\n");
                }
        }
        audit_buffer_free(ab);