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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Rinat Gadelshin <rgadelsh@gmail.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, audit@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can AUDIT_LIST_RULES causes kthreadd-spam?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 14:40:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhTfxqrWaJrBccDY9LJR+Fggr__zufD-Wd=0VZwN5bBU6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ae2c1df-1f20-a40b-35ed-1dc76b122a4f@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 10:50 PM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> On 2023/05/04 7:12, Rinat Gadelshin wrote:
> > On 04.05.2023 00:27, Paul Moore wrote:
> >> Can you be more specific about the kernel threads you are seeing, are
> >> you seeing multiple "kauditd" threads?
> >>
> >> % ps -fC kauditd
> >> UID          PID    PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> >> root          89       2  0 Apr28 ?        00:00:00 [kauditd]
>
> I don't think so.
>
> kernel audit subsystem uses kthread_run() in order to run short-lived kernel threads.

Thanks Tetsuo, I agree that's far more likely.  Ever since I took over
shepherding the audit code, all of the thread issues have been around
the main audit queue thread so it's a bit reflexive to assume that is
the case :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-04 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-03 21:14 Can AUDIT_LIST_RULES causes kthreadd-spam? Rinat Gadelshin
2023-05-03 21:27 ` Paul Moore
2023-05-03 22:12   ` Rinat Gadelshin
2023-05-04  2:50     ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-04 18:40       ` Paul Moore [this message]
2023-05-04 22:53         ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-05 22:12           ` Rinat Gadelshin
2023-05-06  6:50             ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-10 12:12               ` Rinat Gadelshin
2023-05-10 13:30                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-10 13:48                   ` Steve Grubb
2023-05-24 10:38                   ` Rinat Gadelshin
2023-05-24 10:48                     ` Tetsuo Handa

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