linux-kernel - Re: ELF: what should be part of the userspace headers?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1154776124.5181.57.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:08:43 +0800
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-audit@...hat.com
Subject: Re: ELF: what should be part of the userspace headers?

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 13:05 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> include/linux/elf-em.h is used by include/linux/audit.h, but this usage 
> doesn't seem to be part of the kernel <-> userspace interface?

The machine types _are_ part of the audit kernel<->userspace interface,
I think. Exporting elf-em.h should be fairly harmless.

> And which part of the ELF headers is part of the kernel <-> userspace 
> interface?

Almost none of them, I'd suggest. Nothing but auxvec.h

-- 
dwmw2

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/