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

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Tue May 13 2014 - 10:28:39 EST


On 14/05/10, Eric Paris wrote:
> 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]

Ugh, missed that. Even more reason to go with the ns_entries export.

- RGB

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