Here's a patch with a small improvement to kernel/auditsc.c . There's no need for the local variable struct audit_entry *e , we can just call kfree directly on container_of() . Patch also removes an extra space a little further down in the file.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml(a)dif.dk&gt; --- kernel/auditsc.c | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.12-orig/kernel/auditsc.c 2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12/kernel/auditsc.c 2005-06-19 21:21:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct static void audit_free_rule(struct rcu_head *head) { - struct audit_entry *e = container_of(head, struct audit_entry, rcu); - kfree(e); + kfree(container_of(head, struct audit_entry, rcu)); } /* Note that audit_add_rule and audit_del_rule are called via @@ -612,7 +611,7 @@ static inline void audit_free_context(st audit_free_names(context); audit_free_aux(context); kfree(context); - context = previous; + context = previous; } while (context); if (count >= 10) printk(KERN_ERR "audit: freed %d contexts\n", count);