I finally worked out what was wrong and got the kernel through the build system. * Wed Aug 3 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com&gt; audit.85 - Fix success/failure for PPC64 syscall rules While doing final checks, I also noticed that this part of the patch which went into audit.83 was bogus, and removed it... @@ -944,7 +947,7 @@ void audit_free(struct task_struct *tsk) task_unlock(tsk); if (likely(!context)) - return; + goto out; /* Check for system calls that do not go through the exit * function (e.g., exit_group), then free context block. @@ -953,6 +956,7 @@ void audit_free(struct task_struct *tsk) if (context->in_syscall && context->auditable) audit_log_exit(context, GFP_ATOMIC); + out: audit_free_context(context); } -- dwmw2