linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix security.h compilation with !CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:58:35 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix security.h compilation with !CONFIG_SECURITY

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
>
> This recent patch
>
> commit 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40
> Author: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Date:   Thu Aug 14 11:37:28 2008 +0100
>
>    security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
>
> broke compilation with !CONFIG_SECURITY:
>
> linux/include/linux/security.h: In function 'security_ptrace_traceme':
> linux/include/linux/security.h:1760: error: 'parent' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> Add the obvious fix.
>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/security.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
> index 2ee5ecf..0cc23a1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/security.h
> +++ b/include/linux/security.h
> @@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ static inline int security_ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *child,
>
>  static inline int security_ptrace_traceme(struct task_struct *child)
>  {
> -       return cap_ptrace_traceme(parent);
> +       return cap_ptrace_traceme(child);
>  }
>
>  static inline int security_capget(struct task_struct *target,
> --

Oops. I just submitted a similar patch. But I think yours is wrong.

The argument name should be "parent", as in the definition that is
provided when CONFIG_SECURITY=y.

    int security_ptrace_traceme(struct task_struct *parent);

I'm sorry for the double submit.


Vegard

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