audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline
When an admin enables audit at early boot via the "audit=1" kernel command line the audit queue behavior is slightly different; the audit subsystem goes to greater lengths to avoid dropping records, which unfortunately can result in problems when the audit daemon is forcibly stopped for an extended period of time. This patch makes a number of changes designed to improve the audit queuing behavior so that leaving the audit daemon in a stopped state for an extended period does not cause a significant impact to the system. - kauditd_send_queue() is now limited to looping through the passed queue only once per call. This not only prevents the function from looping indefinitely when records are returned to the current queue, it also allows any recovery handling in kauditd_thread() to take place when kauditd_send_queue() returns. - Transient netlink send errors seen as -EAGAIN now cause the record to be returned to the retry queue ins...
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