audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking
What started as a rather straightforward race condition reported by Dmitry using the syzkaller fuzzer ended up revealing some major problems with how the audit subsystem managed its netlink sockets and its connection with the userspace audit daemon. Fixing this properly had quite the cascading effect and what we are left with is this rather large and complicated patch. My initial goal was to try and decompose this patch into multiple smaller patches, but the way these changes are intertwined makes it difficult to split these changes into meaningful pieces that don't break or somehow make things worse for the intermediate states. The patch makes a number of changes, but the most significant are highlighted below: * The auditd tracking variables, e.g. audit_sock, are now gone and replaced by a RCU/spin_lock protected variable auditd_conn which is a structure containing all of the auditd tracking information. * We no longer track the auditd sock directl...
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