[RFC][PATCH] (#6 U1) the latest incarnation

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Thu Mar 24 16:19:16 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:03 -0600, Timothy R. Chavez wrote:
> No testing on SMP as of right now, I'll get right on this right now.

In audit_attach_watch(), you call audit_wentry_fetch_lock() which takes
read lock of the parent while holding the write lock on the entry.  What
if dentry->d_parent == dentry, i.e. root inode of a filesystem?

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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency




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