On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:19:53AM -0700, Peter Moody wrote: >> >> I'm trying to track down a BUG() that seems to strike a particular >> system configuration (unfortunately, an increasingly common >> configuration), but does so with 100% reliability. > > Peter, this looks like exactly the same issue that you asked me about > back in July, isn't it? Check your corp e-mail archives for the > subject line: "advice/pointers on debugging a potential kernel race". > > As I recall, the problem was a missing path_put() in audit_putname() > in kernel/auditsc.c? > > - Ted Yep, this is that issue and I thought that was the fix but it turns out it wasn't. The dentry was already being pinned in: if (!context->pwd.dentry) get_fs_pwd(current->fs, &context->pwd); so my path_get/path_put patch just needlessly grabbed a second reference. -- Peter Moody Google 1.650.253.7306 Security Engineer pgp:0xC3410038 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
