Re: peculiar disappearance of most audit rules

Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-05T16:55:48Z

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

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