audit: wait_for_auditd() should use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:04:46 +0000 (14:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:29:45 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
commitf000cfdde5de4fc15dead5ccf524359c07eadf2b
treef9632725a04ee92a5f1c0839253fe1769e97c84c
parentebf8d6c8630bfd3e24683306599cb953c9a2842c
audit: wait_for_auditd() should use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE

audit_log_start() does wait_for_auditd() in a loop until
audit_backlog_wait_time passes or audit_skb_queue has a room.

If signal_pending() is true this becomes a busy-wait loop, schedule() in
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE won't block.

Thanks to Guy for fully investigating and explaining the problem.

(akpm: that'll cause the system to lock up on a non-preemptible
uniprocessor kernel)

(Guy: "Our customer was in fact running a uniprocessor machine, and they
reported a system hang.")

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Guy Streeter <streeter@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/audit.c