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[GIT PULL] Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1)

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> We've got an audit fix, and unfortunately it is two things I don't
> like: big and based on a -rcX tag.  The size of the patch is
> (hopefully) explained well in the patch description, the -rcX base is
> to get access to code not present in the v4.11 pull request
> (audit/next is still based off v4.8; I'll be updating soon).  While
> I'm not excited that we need to be sending you something this large
> during the -rcX phase, it does fix some very real, and very tangled,
> problems relating to locking, backlog queues, and the audit daemon
> connection.
>
> This code has passed our testsuite without problem and it has held up
> to my ad-hoc stress tests (arguably better than the existing code),
> please consider pulling this as fix for the next v4.11-rcX tag.
>
> Thanks,
> -Paul
>
> ---
> The following changes since commit 97da3854c526d3a6ee05c849c96e48d21527606c:
>
>  Linux 4.11-rc3 (2017-03-19 19:09:39 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>  git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit stable-4.11
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 5b52330bbfe63b3305765354d6046c9f7f89c011:
>
>  audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking (2017-03-21 11:26:35 -0400)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul Moore (1):
>      audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking
>
> kernel/audit.c   | 639 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> kernel/audit.h   |   9 +-
> kernel/auditsc.c |   6 +-
> 3 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)

It would appear that I left off the magic "[GIT PULL]" subject prefix
in my last message.  I suppose this is one more reason why one
shouldn't send pull requests past 5:00p on a Friday.

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

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Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1) Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> - 2017-03-24 22:40 +0100
  [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1) Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> - 2017-03-25 15:50 +0100
  Re: Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-25 23:30 +0100
    Re: Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1) Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> - 2017-03-26 17:20 +0200
      Re: Audit fixes for v4.11 (#1) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-26 19:30 +0200

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