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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Possible bug compiling Audit 2.6.x against kernel headers older than 3.19
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:52:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5171900.Z2pvM0MseI@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSsvmqbDWp=OjphAH6Tf7YC8q0phwCzm86aDz050-3kxAMnZw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 10:53:37 AM EDT Adam Duskett wrote:
> Audit 2.6.x checks for AUDIT_FEATURE_VERSION to be defined in
> include/linux/audit.h (this define was introduced in kernel version
> 3.13) and then blindly assumes that struct audit_status has
> feature_bitmap.
> 
> However this looks like a problem as feature_bitmap wasn't introduced
> until kernel 3.19, even though the requirements for Audit state that
> anything > 2.6.30 should work.  (http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/)

Yes, but this is obvious a mistake. :-)
 
> This causes a compile error when attempting to compile audit 2.6.x
> against kernel headers younger than 3.19.
> 
> libaudit.c:609:33: error: 'struct audit_status' has no member named
> 'feature_bitmap'
> features_bitmap = rep.status->feature_bitmap;

I think this is now fixed in svn. I don't know if you can try a pre-release or 
not. I'll probably do a new release in a few days.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-06 14:53 Possible bug compiling Audit 2.6.x against kernel headers older than 3.19 Adam Duskett
2016-07-06 22:52 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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