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[ Upstream commit 8f110f530635af44fff1f4ee100ecef0bac62510 ] Due to the audit control mutex necessary for serializing audit userspace messages we haven't been able to block/penalize userspace processes that attempt to send audit records while the system is under audit pressure. The result is that privileged userspace applications have a priority boost with respect to audit as they are not bound by the same audit queue throttling as the other tasks on the system. This patch attempts to restore some balance to the system when under audit pressure by blocking these privileged userspace tasks after they have finished their audit processing, and dropped the audit control mutex, but before they return to userspace. Reported-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> Tested-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.