From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:48:34 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: audit: give up sending auditing messages when it failed due to EPERM
X-Git-Tag: v21~89
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=391ade86065cb56e9f4bec0c21f2e22ec7880369

audit: give up sending auditing messages when it failed due to EPERM
---

diff --git a/src/manager.c b/src/manager.c
index 1ab4c94ee..cee434466 100644
--- a/src/manager.c
+++ b/src/manager.c
@@ -2448,8 +2448,19 @@ void manager_send_unit_audit(Manager *m, Unit *u, int type, bool success) {
                 return;
         }
 
-        if (audit_log_user_comm_message(m->audit_fd, type, "", p, NULL, NULL, NULL, success) < 0)
-                log_error("Failed to send audit message: %m");
+        if (audit_log_user_comm_message(m->audit_fd, type, "", p, NULL, NULL, NULL, success) < 0) {
+                log_warning("Failed to send audit message: %m");
+
+                if (errno == EPERM) {
+                        /* We aren't allowed to send audit messages?
+                         * Then let's not retry again, to avoid
+                         * spamming the user with the same and same
+                         * messages over and over. */
+
+                        audit_close(m->audit_fd);
+                        m->audit_fd = -1;
+                }
+        }
 
         free(p);
 #endif