From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH [1/1]: audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:11:17 +0000
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Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> WARN_ON(cred != current->cred && cred->refcnt != 1)

'tsk->parent == current' perhaps?  Or audit_alloc() could pass a flag
indicating the state, or just look to see if tsk->audit_context is still NULL.

David