audit: wake up kauditd_thread after auditd registers

This patch was suggested by Richard Briggs back in 2015, see the link
to the mail archive below.  Unfortunately, that patch is no longer
even remotely valid due to other changes to the code.

* https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2015-October/msg00075.html

Suggested-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index e23ce6ce101f1bc6964ae1417fb55e6069695bbb..0572e5dcfda78db3b01a97a439f1111e4b76727f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                        audit_pid = new_pid;
                        audit_nlk_portid = NETLINK_CB(skb).portid;
                        audit_sock = skb->sk;
+                       wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait);
                }
                if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT) {
                        err = audit_set_rate_limit(s.rate_limit);