linux-kernel - [PATCH] capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:49:05 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, sam@...nborg.org,
	harvey.harrison@...il.com, gorcunov@...il.com, morgan@...nel.org,
	astor@...rdian.no, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace

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@...il.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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