audit.60 kernel (Re: [PATCH] bug fixes + cleanups against audit.58)

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sun Jun 19 18:29:40 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 08:15 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> This kernel Oopsed within 5 minutes for me. The details are nearly the
> same as posted in the bugzilla.

It looks like the watch is being freed while we're using it.

Tim, what's the locking strategy here? Why is auditfs_attach_wdata()
allowed to walk the watch list as it does, allocating memory and
potentially sleeping between each item?

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dwmw2




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