Re: [PATCH v2] audit: Avoid excessive dput/dget in audit_context setup and reset paths

Al Viro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.audit,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <20260203195958.GG3183987@ZenIV>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 02:44:33PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

> +		/*
> +		 * Defer the path_put() call of the old pwd to workqueue as
> +		 * we may be in an atomic context that cannot call path_put()
> +		 * directly because of might_sleep().
> +		 */
> +		pp = kmalloc(sizeof(*pp), GFP_NOFS);

If that really gets called in atomic context, this kmalloc will
in itself be enough to fuck you over, won't it?
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