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

On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:19 am, Stephen Smalley wrote: > 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? Funny you mentioned this. Right after you told me about the deadlock you were getting, I went and looked at this function, and noticed the same thing. I'm now testing for this case.