1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>audit_alloc</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="audit.html" title="Chapter&#160;12.&#160;Audit Interfaces"><link rel="prev" href="API-audit-log-secctx.html" title="audit_log_secctx"><link rel="next" href="API---audit-free.html" title="__audit_free"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">audit_alloc</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-audit-log-secctx.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter&#160;12.&#160;Audit Interfaces</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API---audit-free.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-audit-alloc"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>audit_alloc &#8212; 
2  allocate an audit context block for a task
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">audit_alloc </b>(</code></td><td>struct task_struct * <var class="pdparam">tsk</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1127523388"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>tsk</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     task
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6   Filter on the task information and allocate a per-task audit context
7   if necessary.  Doing so turns on system call auditing for the
8   specified task.  This is called from copy_process, so no lock is
9   needed.
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