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From: Gabriel Ryan <gabe@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: abhishek.shah@columbia.edu, linux-audit@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eparis@redhat.com
Subject: Re: data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:09:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALbthtfc+j5PeV=oT+inpxxFehNS2c66UaQbQKtg1pA-+AFopg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhQzb6Dtmmfw4kdiG9BCFzT9fkt=ms3us2p-eAsQv8gMiw@mail.gmail.com>


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Hi Paul,

Will do. For this race we don’t have any indication it’s a serious problem
beyond the race itself and manual inspection of the relevant code locations.

Best,

Gabe

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:42 PM Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:09 PM Gabriel Ryan <gabe@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to review our report! It sounds like there
> > aren't severe negative impacts and patching to eliminate the race
> > would impose unnecessary performance penalties so we'll mark this as
> > benign for future reference.
>
> I just want to reiterate that if you are seeing a serious problem
> please let us know and we'll work with you to find a fix.
>
> --
> paul-moore.com
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-24 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-18 22:23 data-race in audit_log_start / audit_receive Abhishek Shah
2022-08-19  1:59 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-19 12:06   ` Paul Moore
2022-08-22 20:09     ` Gabriel Ryan
2022-08-22 23:42       ` Paul Moore
2022-08-23 13:09         ` Gabriel Ryan [this message]

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