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From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Peter Grandi <pg@aud.list.sabi.co.UK>
Cc: Linux audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: peculiar disappearance of most audit rules
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:55:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141105165548.GQ26201@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21341.27038.918993.838943@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk>

On 14/04/27, Peter Grandi wrote:
> > but in either case, the inodes aren't supposed to be able to
> > be kicked out of core...
> 
> But on 3 different system I have they really seem to be evicted,
> and with regularity, and this does not happen if the inodes are
> kept open.
> 
> From the source I have looked at, the *notify code seems to
> attempt to hold on to the inodes that are watched, but perhaps
> it has some hidden assumptions that the 'audit' module does not
> satisfy.

Do you have a reproducer to detect this quickly?

Miklos Szeredi appears to have found the likely cause:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/246

- RGB

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-21 17:49 peculiar disappearance of most audit rules Peter Grandi
2014-04-21 18:28 ` Steve Grubb
2014-04-21 18:35   ` lists_todd
2014-04-21 19:03     ` Eric Paris
2014-04-21 20:49   ` Peter Grandi
2014-04-22 20:53     ` Peter Grandi
2014-04-22 21:46       ` Steve Grubb
2014-04-23  8:04       ` Peter Grandi
2014-04-23 14:34         ` Eric Paris
2014-04-27 20:33           ` Peter Grandi
2014-11-05 16:55             ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]

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