Making common_lsm_audit() non-blocking; we don't really need to grab/drop dentry in there - rcu_read_lock() is enough. There's a couple of followups using that to simplify the logics in selinux, but those hadn't soaked in -next yet, so they'll have to go in next window. The following changes since commit d36a1dd9f77ae1e72da48f4123ed35627848507d: dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name (2021-01-16 15:11:35 -0500) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.audit for you to fetch changes up to 23d8f5b684fc30126b7708cad38b753eaa078b3e: make dump_common_audit_data() safe to be called from RCU pathwalk (2021-01-16 15:12:08 -0500) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (2): new helper: d_find_alias_rcu() make dump_common_audit_data() safe to be called from RCU pathwalk fs/dcache.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/dcache.h | 2 ++ security/lsm_audit.c | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)