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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Eric@oss.sgi.com,
	sekharan@linux.vnet.ibm.com, XFS Mailing List <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: Delay freeing inode->i_security till the end of RCU grace period
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:30:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323189102.2165.39.camel@falcor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111206151429.GB11874@infradead.org>

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:14 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 12:42:21PM -0600, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > while running test case 234 from xfstests test suite, I was getting an
> > occational memory fault in inode_has_perm() with the following stack
> 
> Interesting.  Given that have no good way to free other data with the
> normal inode callback it looks like we indeed need to do this
> separately.
> 
> What about IMA or similar monsters?  Posix ACLs already are covered at
> least.

Looks like a similar problem exists with the 'iint'.

Mimi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05 18:42 [PATCH] security: Delay freeing inode->i_security till the end of RCU grace period Chandra Seetharaman
2011-12-06 15:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-06 16:09   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-12-06 16:44     ` Mimi Zohar
2011-12-06 16:30   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2011-12-06 17:04     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-12-06 19:45       ` Mimi Zohar
2011-12-06 22:28         ` Chandra Seetharaman

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