Re: Deferred freeing of kauth_cred_ts

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Dec,Friday 25 2009, at 12:05 AM, Elad Efrat wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One thing that prevents us from attaching credentials to sockets is an
> issue where these might be freed from interrupt context.
> 
> What I have in mind is being able to tell when we can sleep or not,
> and if not, add the credentials to a queue that an independent thread
> will take care of freeing.

Extracting parts of assert_sleepable doesn't seem to be right for me. I think 
that we should put all credentials to queue and leave their free on a thread. 
Another question is why socket credentials can be destroyed from interrupt 
context.

Regards

Adam.