[PATCH] move audit_dentry_unpin

Timothy R. Chavez tinytim at us.ibm.com
Tue May 17 20:58:01 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:40, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Yes.. this was patched with the RPM kernel.

-tim




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