[PATCH 0/6] audit: Fix various races when tagging and untagging mounts

Amir Goldstein amir73il at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 11:44:54 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this series addresses the problems I have identified when trying to understand
> how exactly is kernel/audit_tree.c using generic fsnotify framework. I hope
> I have understood all the interactions right but careful review is certainly
> welcome (CCing Al as he was the one implementing this code originally).
>
> The patches have been tested by a stress test I have written which mounts &
> unmounts filesystems in the directory tree while adding and removing audit
> rules for this tree in parallel and accessing the tree to generate events.
> Still some real-world testing would be welcome.
>

This sort of stress test sound really useful to fanotify/inotify as well.
Do plan to upstream that stress test?

Thanks!
Amir.




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