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* [PATCH] capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
@ 2009-01-13  6:19 Jaswinder Singh Rajput
  2009-01-13  8:01 ` Andrew G. Morgan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput @ 2009-01-13  6:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, sam, harvey.harrison, gorcunov, morgan, astor, LKML

Impact: fix 2 make headers_check warnings:

 usr/include/linux/capability.h:72: leaks CONFIG_SECURITY to userspace where it is not valid
 usr/include/linux/capability.h:73: extern's make no sense in userspace

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
---
 include/linux/capability.h |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
index 02bdb76..1b98725 100644
--- a/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
 #define VFS_CAP_U32             VFS_CAP_U32_2
 #define VFS_CAP_REVISION	VFS_CAP_REVISION_2
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
-extern int file_caps_enabled;
-#endif
-
 struct vfs_cap_data {
 	__le32 magic_etc;            /* Little endian */
 	struct {
@@ -96,6 +92,10 @@ struct vfs_cap_data {
 #define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3
 #define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S    _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
+extern int file_caps_enabled;
+#endif
+
 typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
 	__u32 cap[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
 } kernel_cap_t;
-- 
1.5.6.6




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* Re: [PATCH] capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
  2009-01-13  6:19 [PATCH] capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace Jaswinder Singh Rajput
@ 2009-01-13  8:01 ` Andrew G. Morgan
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew G. Morgan @ 2009-01-13  8:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, sam, harvey.harrison, gorcunov, astor, LKML

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Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>

Cheers

Andrew

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Impact: fix 2 make headers_check warnings:
> 
>  usr/include/linux/capability.h:72: leaks CONFIG_SECURITY to userspace where it is not valid
>  usr/include/linux/capability.h:73: extern's make no sense in userspace
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/capability.h |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
> index 02bdb76..1b98725 100644
> --- a/include/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
> @@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
>  #define VFS_CAP_U32             VFS_CAP_U32_2
>  #define VFS_CAP_REVISION	VFS_CAP_REVISION_2
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
> -extern int file_caps_enabled;
> -#endif
> -
>  struct vfs_cap_data {
>  	__le32 magic_etc;            /* Little endian */
>  	struct {
> @@ -96,6 +92,10 @@ struct vfs_cap_data {
>  #define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3
>  #define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S    _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
> +extern int file_caps_enabled;
> +#endif
> +
>  typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
>  	__u32 cap[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
>  } kernel_cap_t;
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