diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 6b6c089512f7..987740374dfa 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ static struct audit_ctl_mutex {
  * to place it on a transmit queue.  Multiple audit_buffers can be in
  * use simultaneously. */
 struct audit_buffer {
-	struct sk_buff       *skb;	/* formatted skb ready to send */
+	struct sk_buff       *skb;	/* the skb for audit_log functions */
+	struct sk_buff_head  skb_list;	/* formatted skbs, ready to send */
 	struct audit_context *ctx;	/* NULL or associated context */
+	struct audit_stamp   stamp;	/* audit stamp for these records */
 	gfp_t		     gfp_mask;
 };
 
@@ -1765,10 +1767,13 @@ __setup("audit_backlog_limit=", audit_backlog_limit_set);
 
 static void audit_buffer_free(struct audit_buffer *ab)
 {
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+
 	if (!ab)
 		return;
 
-	kfree_skb(ab->skb);
+	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&ab->skb_list)))
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 	kmem_cache_free(audit_buffer_cache, ab);
 }
 
@@ -1784,8 +1789,12 @@ static struct audit_buffer *audit_buffer_alloc(struct audit_context *ctx,
 	ab->skb = nlmsg_new(AUDIT_BUFSIZ, gfp_mask);
 	if (!ab->skb)
 		goto err;
+
+	skb_queue_head_init(&ab->skb_list);
+	skb_queue_tail(&ab->skb_list, ab->skb);
+
 	if (!nlmsg_put(ab->skb, 0, 0, type, 0, 0))
-		goto err;
+		kfree_skb(ab->skb);
 
 	ab->ctx = ctx;
 	ab->gfp_mask = gfp_mask;
@@ -1849,7 +1858,6 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 				     int type)
 {
 	struct audit_buffer *ab;
-	struct audit_stamp stamp;
 
 	if (audit_initialized != AUDIT_INITIALIZED)
 		return NULL;
@@ -1904,14 +1912,14 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	audit_get_stamp(ab->ctx, &stamp);
+	audit_get_stamp(ab->ctx, &ab->stamp);
 	/* cancel dummy context to enable supporting records */
 	if (ctx)
 		ctx->dummy = 0;
 	audit_log_format(ab, "audit(%llu.%03lu:%u): ",
-			 (unsigned long long)stamp.ctime.tv_sec,
-			 stamp.ctime.tv_nsec/1000000,
-			 stamp.serial);
+			 (unsigned long long)ab->stamp.ctime.tv_sec,
+			 ab->stamp.ctime.tv_nsec/1000000,
+			 ab->stamp.serial);
 
 	return ab;
 }
@@ -2167,6 +2175,57 @@ void audit_log_key(struct audit_buffer *ab, char *key)
 		audit_log_format(ab, "(null)");
 }
 
+/**
+ * audit_buffer_aux_new - Add an aux record buffer to the skb list
+ * @ab: audit_buffer
+ * @type: message type
+ *
+ * Aux records are allocated and added to the skb list of
+ * the "main" record. The ab->skb is reset to point to the
+ * aux record on its creation. When the aux record in complete
+ * ab->skb has to be reset to point to the "main" record.
+ * This allows the audit_log_ functions to be ignorant of
+ * which kind of record it is logging to. It also avoids adding
+ * special data for aux records.
+ *
+ * On success ab->skb will point to the new aux record.
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM should allocation fail.
+ */
+static int audit_buffer_aux_new(struct audit_buffer *ab, int type)
+{
+	WARN_ON(ab->skb != skb_peek(&ab->skb_list));
+
+	ab->skb = nlmsg_new(AUDIT_BUFSIZ, ab->gfp_mask);
+	if (!ab->skb)
+		goto err;
+	if (!nlmsg_put(ab->skb, 0, 0, type, 0, 0))
+		goto err;
+	skb_queue_tail(&ab->skb_list, ab->skb);
+
+	audit_log_format(ab, "audit(%llu.%03lu:%u): ",
+			 (unsigned long long)ab->stamp.ctime.tv_sec,
+			 ab->stamp.ctime.tv_nsec/1000000,
+			 ab->stamp.serial);
+
+	return 0;
+
+err:
+	kfree_skb(ab->skb);
+	ab->skb = skb_peek(&ab->skb_list);
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+/**
+ * audit_buffer_aux_end - Switch back to the "main" record from an aux record
+ * @ab: audit_buffer
+ *
+ * Restores the "main" audit record to ab->skb.
+ */
+static void audit_buffer_aux_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
+{
+	ab->skb = skb_peek(&ab->skb_list);
+}
+
 int audit_log_task_context(struct audit_buffer *ab)
 {
 	int error;
@@ -2402,26 +2461,14 @@ int audit_signal_info(int sig, struct task_struct *t)
 }
 
 /**
- * audit_log_end - end one audit record
- * @ab: the audit_buffer
- *
- * We can not do a netlink send inside an irq context because it blocks (last
- * arg, flags, is not set to MSG_DONTWAIT), so the audit buffer is placed on a
- * queue and a kthread is scheduled to remove them from the queue outside the
- * irq context.  May be called in any context.
+ * __audit_log_end - enqueue one audit record
+ * @skb: the buffer to send
  */
-void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
+static void __audit_log_end(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
 
-	if (!ab)
-		return;
-
 	if (audit_rate_check()) {
-		skb = ab->skb;
-		ab->skb = NULL;
-
 		/* setup the netlink header, see the comments in
 		 * kauditd_send_multicast_skb() for length quirks */
 		nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
@@ -2432,6 +2479,26 @@ void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
 		wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait);
 	} else
 		audit_log_lost("rate limit exceeded");
+}
+
+/**
+ * audit_log_end - end one audit record
+ * @ab: the audit_buffer
+ *
+ * We can not do a netlink send inside an irq context because it blocks (last
+ * arg, flags, is not set to MSG_DONTWAIT), so the audit buffer is placed on a
+ * queue and a kthread is scheduled to remove them from the queue outside the
+ * irq context.  May be called in any context.
+ */
+void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+	if (!ab)
+		return;
+
+	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&ab->skb_list)))
+		__audit_log_end(skb);
 
 	audit_buffer_free(ab);
 }
