On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> After 2f9783669 [ARM: 7412/1: audit: use only AUDIT_ARCH_ARM regardless >> of endianness], no kernel user uses this macro; >> >> Keeping this macro, only makes the compiling old version audit [before >> changeset 931 Improve ARM and AARCH64 support] success, but the audit >> program can not work with the kernel after 2f9783669 still, >> since no syscall entry is enabled for AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB in kernel. >> >> so remove it to force to use the latest audit program >> >> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> other workaround is to define AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB as AUDIT_ARCH_ARM, >> but it seems very strange >> >> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 1 - >> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > Since this #define lives in the user visible headers I don't want to > remove it and risk causing a userspace breakage. Leaving the #define > in the header, even if it is unused by modern userspace, is harmless. > it is harm, when I compile the audit-2.3.2 for a arm machine, whose linux kernel is 3.14; no compile error, but audit does not work; since the audit is > > > -- > paul moore > www.paul-moore.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
