[patch] simplify audit_free() locking

[Ingo Molnar]

this patch simplifies 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@xxxxxxx>

Index: linux/kernel/auditsc.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ linux/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -692,10 +692,14 @@ 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;
 
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