[RFC][PATCH] (#6) filesystem auditing
Stephen Smalley
sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Fri Mar 18 19:54:01 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:41 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> - Is there any reason to use the irqsave/irqrestore form of the locks?
> When is your code ever called from irq?
>
> - Relying on locking in the caller to protect your own data structures
> seems fragile and unmaintainable; I don't think you want to rely on the
> caller holding dentry->d_lock for exclusion for your own lists, e.g. the
> audit data stack?
Sorry, I meant dcache_lock here, not dentry->d_lock, as that would
obviously be completely broken.
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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency
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