[RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:50:19 -0800 ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> Modify audit_send_reply to directly use a non-blocking send and
> to return an error on failure (if anyone cares).
> 
> Modify audit_list_rules_send to use audit_send_reply and give up
> if we can not send a packet.
> 
> Merge audit_list_rules into iaudit_list_rules_send as the code
> is now sufficiently simple to not justify to callers.
> 
> Kill audit_send_list, audit_send_reply_thread because using
> a separate thread for replies is not needed when sending
> packets syncrhonously.

Nothing much seems to be happening here?

In an earlier email you said "While reading through 3.14-rc1 I found a
pretty siginficant mishandling of network namespaces in the recent
audit changes." Were those recent audit changes a post-3.14 thing?  And
what is the user-visible effect of the mishandling?

Thanks.