From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Oops with ext(3|4) and audit and Xen
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:15:00 -0400
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:19:53AM -0700, Peter Moody wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to track down a BUG() that seems to strike a particular
> system configuration (unfortunately, an increasingly common
> configuration), but does so with 100% reliability.

Peter, this looks like exactly the same issue that you asked me about
back in July, isn't it?  Check your corp e-mail archives for the
subject line: "advice/pointers on debugging a potential kernel race".

As I recall, the problem was a missing path_put() in audit_putname()
in kernel/auditsc.c?

					- Ted