+/**
+ * audit_log_start - obtain an audit buffer
+ * @ctx: audit_context (may be NULL)
+ * @gfp_mask: type of allocation
+ * @type: audit message type
+ *
+ * Returns audit_buffer pointer on success or NULL on error.
+ *
+ * Obtain an audit buffer. This routine does locking to obtain the
+ * audit buffer, but then no locking is required for calls to
+ * audit_log_*format. If the task (ctx) is a task that is currently in a
+ * syscall, then the syscall is marked as auditable and an audit record
+ * will be written at syscall exit. If there is no associated task, then
+ * task context (ctx) should be NULL.
+ */