From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz&gt; Audit rules disappear when an inode they watch is evicted from the cache. This is likely not what we want. The guilty commit is "fsnotify: allow marks to not pin inodes in core", which didn't take into account that audit_tree adds watches with a zero mask. Adding any mask should fix this. Fixes: 90b1e7a57880 ("fsnotify: allow marks to not pin inodes in core") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz&gt; Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org # 2.6.36+ --- kernel/audit_tree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static struct audit_chunk *alloc_chunk(i chunk->owners[i].index = i; } fsnotify_init_mark(&chunk->mark, audit_tree_destroy_watch); + chunk->mark.mask = FS_IN_IGNORED; return chunk; }