From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:51:39 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking
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[PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking

Simplify audit_free()'s locking: no need to lock a task that we are tearing
down.  [the extra locking also caused false positives in the lock
validator]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index d3d499272d139..b613ec89e99c1 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -704,10 +704,14 @@ void audit_free(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct audit_context *context;
 
-	task_lock(tsk);
+	/*
+	 * No need to lock the task - when we execute audit_free()
+	 * then the task has no external references anymore, and
+	 * we are tearing it down. (The locking also confuses
+	 * DEBUG_LOCKDEP - this freeing may occur in softirq
+	 * contexts as well, via RCU.)
+	 */
 	context = audit_get_context(tsk, 0, 0);
-	task_unlock(tsk);
-
 	if (likely(!context))
 		return;