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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eparis@redhat.com, linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] this mutex_lock is miss used
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:32:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419153228.GU26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090419140355.GA16609@helight>

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:03:55PM +0800, Zhenwen Xu wrote:
> 
> This mutex_lock and mutex_unlock has no use in such way.

Incorrect.  They delay sending response until we are out of audit_receive().

> It should be like this way:

No, it should not.  In particular, it should *NOT* be held while sending
these packets.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-19 14:03 [PATCH] this mutex_lock is miss used Zhenwen Xu
2009-04-19 15:32 ` Al Viro [this message]

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