On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <r...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 14/11/04, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@suse.cz> > > Hi Miklos, > >> Audit rules disappear when an inode they watch is evicted from the cache. >> This is likely not what we want. >> >> The guilty commit is "fsnotify: allow marks to not pin inodes in core", >> which didn't take into account that audit_tree adds watches with a zero >> mask. >> >> Adding any mask should fix this. > > Nice find! Do you have a quick reproducer to detect this?
- reboot - add tree rule - echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches drop_caches doesn't guarantee dropping the inode from the cache, but after a reboot it usually does. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/