1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>audit_log_end</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-format.html" title="audit_log_format"><link rel="next" href="API-audit-log.html" title="audit_log"></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_log_end</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-audit-log-format.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-log.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-audit-log-end"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>audit_log_end &#8212; 
2     end one audit record
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">void <b class="fsfunc">audit_log_end </b>(</code></td><td>struct audit_buffer * <var class="pdparam">ab</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1127493948"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>ab</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     the audit_buffer
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6   <code class="function">netlink_unicast</code> cannot be called inside an irq context because it blocks
7   (last arg, flags, is not set to MSG_DONTWAIT), so the audit buffer is placed
8   on a queue and a tasklet is scheduled to remove them from the queue outside
9   the irq context.  May be called in any context.
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