From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

Removing the parent of a watched file results in "kernel BUG at
fs/notify/mark.c:139".

To reproduce

  add "-w /tmp/audit/dir/watched_file" to audit.rules
  rm -rf /tmp/audit/dir

This is caused by fsnotify_destroy_mark() being called without an
extra reference taken by the caller.

Reported by Francesco Cosoleto here:

  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689860

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
CC: Al Viro <[email protected]>
CC: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
---

 kernel/audit_watch.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index e683869..4270d84 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -349,7 +349,9 @@ static void audit_remove_parent_watches(struct audit_parent 
*parent)
        }
        mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
 
+       audit_get_parent(parent);
        fsnotify_destroy_mark(&parent->mark);
+       audit_put_parent(parent);
 }
 
 /* Get path information necessary for adding watches. */

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