[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "audit: keep inode pinned" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    audit: keep inode pinned

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:27:12 +0100
Subject: audit: keep inode pinned

commit 799b601451b21ebe7af0e6e8f6e2ccd4683c5064 upstream.

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.

Fixes: 90b1e7a57880 ("fsnotify: allow marks to not pin inodes in core")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/audit_tree.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
index 135944a7b28a..a79db03990db 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static struct audit_chunk *alloc_chunk(int count)
 		chunk->owners[i].index = i;
 	}
 	fsnotify_init_mark(&chunk->mark, audit_tree_destroy_watch);
+	chunk->mark.mask = FS_IN_IGNORED;
 	return chunk;
 }

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