Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 03:00:42PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > >> The last one is the easiest to answer - we want to keep the imported strings >> around for audit. It's not so much a proper refcounting as it is "we might >> want freeing delayed" implemented as refcount. > > BTW, regarding io_uring + audit interactions - just how is that supposed to > work if you offload any work that might lead to audit records (on permission > checks, etc.) to helper threads? For people looking into these details. Things have gotten much better recently. The big change is that io_uring helper threads are now proper threads of the process that is using io_uring. The io_uring helper threads just happen to never execute any userspace code. Eric
