Finally i found some time and spare server to retest the oops and list_add corruptions i was getting with the 3.x kernels and auditd 2.1.3. I tested now with gentoo's latest stable 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 and <a href="http://kernel.org">kernel.org</a>'s 3.2.9. Both get the oops/BUG in the same way and after that, they keep pouring list_add corruptions with audit_prune_tre(truncated?) and auditctl as comms. Since this is not about Gentoo's kernel only, i'll post here the oops in 3.2.9 and also attach some list_add corruptions. 3.2.9 BUG: <pre class="bz_comment_text" id="comment_text_14">kernel: [ 301.240011] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) kernel: [ 301.240305] IP: [<c1238dd0>] __list_del_entry+0x20/0xe0 kernel: [ 301.240481] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ddc8f000ddc8 kernel: [ 301.240698] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP kernel: [ 301.240910] kernel: [ 301.241030] Pid: 642, comm: fsnotify_mark Not tainted 3.2.9-drbd-version3 #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950/0CX396 kernel: [ 301.241370] EIP: 0060:[<c1238dd0>] EFLAGS: 00010287 CPU: 6 kernel: [ 301.241498] EIP is at __list_del_entry+0x20/0xe0 kernel: [ 301.241623] EAX: f4fae544 EBX: f47cffa4 ECX: ffffffff EDX: 00000000 kernel: [ 301.241751] ESI: f4fae544 EDI: f4fae508 EBP: f47cff7c ESP: f47cff64 kernel: [ 301.241879] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 kernel: [ 301.242005] Process fsnotify_mark (pid: 642, ti=f47ce000 task=f4f47c00 task.ti=f47ce000) kernel: [ 301.242207] Stack: kernel: [ 301.242327] c10813c0 f47cffa4 f4f47c00 f4e70888 f47cff7c f47cffa4 f47cffb8 c10f6976 kernel: [ 301.242882] ffffffc3 f4f47c00 f4f47c00 00000000 f4f47c00 c10530c0 f47cff9c f47cff9c kernel: [ 301.243438] f4fae544 f4fae544 f4c47f58 00000000 c10f68f0 f47cffe4 c1052834 00000000 kernel: [ 301.243995] Call Trace: kernel: [ 301.244119] [<c10813c0>] ? rcu_check_callbacks+0x110/0x110 kernel: [ 301.244248] [<c10f6976>] fsnotify_mark_destroy+0x86/0x120 kernel: [ 301.244377] [<c10530c0>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0x80/0x80 kernel: [ 301.244504] [<c10f68f0>] ? fsnotify_put_mark+0x30/0x30 kernel: [ 301.244631] [<c1052834>] kthread+0x74/0x80 kernel: [ 301.244756] [<c10527c0>] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 kernel: [ 301.244885] [<c1582ab6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd kernel: [ 301.245011] Code: 55 f4 8b 45 f8 e9 75 ff ff ff 90 55 89 e5 53 83 ec 14 8b 08 8b 50 04 81 f9 00 01 10 00 74 24 81 fa 00 02 20 00 0f 84 8e 00 00 00 <8b> 1a 39 d8 75 62 8b 59 04 39 d8 75 35 89 51 04 89 0a 83 c4 14 kernel: [ 301.248195] EIP: [<c1238dd0>] __list_del_entry+0x20/0xe0 SS:ESP 0068:f47cff64 kernel: [ 301.248414] CR2: 0000000000000000 kernel: [ 301.248538] ---[ end trace 15082dbfb353f84c ]---</pre>The kernel was compiled with the following DEBUG support (the bolded one were requested by Gentoo's Dev: CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG=y CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR=y CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES=y CONFIG_AIC94XX_DEBUG=y CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y CONFIG_DEBUG_PI_LIST=y CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST=y I attached the kernel config i used for 3.2.9 to generate this oops and warnings. From the list_add warnings that come after, out of 805 warnings i processed, after masking with XXXXX the PID and next= values that kept changing in every one, i got 26 types of MD5. I also attached the files relevant as an archive to this email. The Gentoo bug i opened is sleeping, it seems nobody has the time to at least test to confirm or not the problems i'm seeing (or everybody's thinking that nobody would restart auditd so often, so the bug it's not that serious). Thank you for your time. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Valentin Avram <<a href="mailto:aval13@gmail.com">aval13@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div>