From f1aaf26224bee779012aab136e5373ce3487982c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Imre Palik Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:37:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] audit: move the tree pruning to a dedicated thread When file auditing is enabled, during a low memory situation, a memory allocation with __GFP_FS can lead to pruning the inode cache. Which can, in turn lead to audit_tree_freeing_mark() being called. This can call audit_schedule_prune(), that tries to fork a pruning thread, and waits until the thread is created. But forking needs memory, and the memory allocations there are done with __GFP_FS. So we are waiting merrily for some __GFP_FS memory allocations to complete, while holding some filesystem locks. This can take a while ... This patch creates a single thread for pruning the tree from audit_add_tree_rule(), and thus avoids the deadlock that the on-demand thread creation can cause. Reported-by: Matt Wilson Cc: Matt Wilson Signed-off-by: Imre Palik Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore --- Reading git-format-patch failed