[PATCH] move audit_dentry_unpin

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue May 17 20:40:41 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:21 -0500, Timothy R. Chavez wrote:
> This patch fixes the error that Loulwa reported was hanging her system.  What 
> was happening was that audit_dentry_unpin was being called under the 
> protection of the same spinlocks it was trying to hold itself (via the dput() 
> it was calling).  To fix this, I moved audit_dentry_unpin outside of the 
> spinlocks where it belonged in the first place.

Has this been tested in the RPM kernel? If so, I'll add it and do a
rebuild tomorrow morning.

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dwmw2





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