Re: [PATCH] audit: grab a reference to context->pwd when it's cached

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:13:33PM -0700, Peter Moody wrote: > On certain systems, in certain pathalogical cases, current's cwd can > be deleted while we're still processing a syscall. This should prevent > the system from evicting the inode while we're still referencing it. > > This seems to fix the bug I reported here: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2012-August/msg00017.html Sigh... The bug is real, but I really don't like the fix. Among other things, it's going to cause cacheline bouncing from hell and not everyone runs with audit sensibly disabled... Let me think for a while and see if I can come up with something less unpleasant, OK?