Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

* Tony Jones ([email protected]) wrote:
> From: Tony Jones <[email protected]>
> Minor performance enhancement.
> 
> Thread flag TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is not cleared for new children when audit 
> context creation has been disabled (auditctl -e0). This can cause new children 
> forked from a parent created when audit was enabled to not take the fastest 
> syscall path thru entry.S
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <[email protected]>

Yeah, I think that's the right thing to do.  Doesn't have an
audit_context anyway.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
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