Re: [PATCH] this mutex_lock is miss used

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:03:55PM +0800, Zhenwen Xu wrote:
> 
> This mutex_lock and mutex_unlock has no use in such way.

Incorrect.  They delay sending response until we are out of audit_receive().

> It should be like this way:

No, it should not.  In particular, it should *NOT* be held while sending
these packets.
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