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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2008-01-08 17:38:31 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-02-01 14:24:45 -0500
commitb593d384efcff7bdf6beb1bc1bc69927977aee26 (patch)
tree9055ef0decc84dcbf0da67135535f0746e602e8e /kernel/auditsc.c
parent50397bd1e471391d27f64efad9271459c913de87 (diff)
downloadlinux-b593d384efcff7bdf6beb1bc1bc69927977aee26.tar.gz
[AUDIT] create context if auditing was ever enabled
Disabling audit at runtime by auditctl doesn't mean that we can
stop allocating contexts for new processes; we don't want to miss them
when that sucker is reenabled.

(based on work from Al Viro in the RHEL kernel series)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/auditsc.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 6e03322e155b..1c06ecf38d7b 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
 #include "audit.h"
 
 extern struct list_head audit_filter_list[];
+extern int audit_ever_enabled;
 
 /* AUDIT_NAMES is the number of slots we reserve in the audit_context
  * for saving names from getname(). */
@@ -838,7 +839,7 @@ int audit_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	struct audit_context *context;
 	enum audit_state     state;
 
-	if (likely(!audit_enabled))
+	if (likely(!audit_ever_enabled))
 		return 0; /* Return if not auditing. */
 
 	state = audit_filter_task(tsk);