On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:38:20 -0700 Tony Jones <tonyj(a)suse.de&gt; wrote: Removing a watched file will oops if audit is disabled (auditctl -e 0). To reproduce: - auditctl -e 1 - touch /tmp/foo - auditctl -w /tmp/foo - auditctl -e 0 - rm /tmp/foo (or mv) Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj(a)suse.de&gt; --- diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c index 74cc0fc..ce61f42 100644 --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static void audit_update_watch(struct au /* If the update involves invalidating rules, do the inode-based * filtering now, so we don't omit records. */ - if (invalidating && + if (invalidating && current->audit_context && audit_filter_inodes(current, current->audit_context) == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT) audit_set_auditable(current->audit_context);