linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.10 070/111] audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking

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Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:37:57 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.10 070/111] audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state
 tracking

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:30:56PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

> +	if (!(auditd_test_task(current) ||
> +	      (current == __mutex_owner(&audit_cmd_mutex)))) {
> +		long stime = audit_backlog_wait_time;

Since I cannot find the original email on lkml, NAK on this.
__mutex_owner() is not a general purpose helper function.