Re: [PATCH V2 2/6] audit: log namespace serial numbers

From: Eric Paris
Date: Sat May 10 2014 - 11:56:39 EST


On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 20:27 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:

Not so relevant because you delete all of this code later... But
still...

> +#ifdef CONFIG_NAMESPACES
> +void audit_log_namespace_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> + struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();

ok, so we are under rcu_read_lock() and cannot sleep

> + nsproxy = task_nsproxy(tsk);
> + if (nsproxy != NULL) {
> + audit_log_format(ab, " mntns=%llx", nsproxy->mnt_ns->serial_num);

But this could do an allocation, are we sure that everything used
GFP_ATOMIC when creating the audit buffer? [hint: it doesn't]

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