On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:40:41 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> The audit watch count was imbalanced, adding an unnecessary layer of watch
> references.  Only add the second reference when it is added to a parent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/audit_watch.c |    5 ++---
>  kernel/auditfilter.c |    9 ---------
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Nice catch, we never needed that extra refcnt bump in audit_to_watch().  One 
minor comment below...

> diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> index 72e1660..74cc077 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> @@ -549,8 +549,6 @@ exit_nofree:
>       return entry;
> 
>  exit_free:
> -     if (entry->rule.watch)
> -             audit_put_watch(entry->rule.watch); /* matches initial get */
>       if (entry->rule.tree)
>               audit_put_tree(entry->rule.tree); /* that's the temporary one */
>       audit_free_rule(entry);
> @@ -933,11 +931,7 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct audit_entry
> *entry) #endif
>       mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
> 
> -     return 0;
> -
>  error:
> -     if (watch)
> -             audit_put_watch(watch); /* tmp watch, matches initial get */
>       return err;
>  }

Since the error label is now just a "return err;", how about removing the 
label entirely and replacing the gotos with returns?

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

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