[PATCH] security: Delay freeing inode->i_security till the end of RCU grace period
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Dec 6 10:30:36 CST 2011
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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