[Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/6] audit: bump to version 2.6

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Jul 6 20:43:53 UTC 2016


Adam, All,

On 2016-07-06 10:42 -0400, Adam Duskett spake thusly:
> I think this is a bug in Audit actually.
> 
> Audit 2.6.x checks for AUDIT_FEATURE_VERSION to be defined in
> include/linux/audit.h (this define was introduced in kernel version
> 3.13) and then blindly assumes that struct audit_status has
> feature_bitmap.
> However this looks like a problem as feature_bitmap wasn't introduced
> until kernel 3.19, even though the requirements for audit state >
> 2.6.30 (http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/)
> 
> This causes a compile error when attempting to compile audit 2.6.x
> against kernel headers younger than 3.19.

Thanks for investigating and explaining! :-)

> For the mean time i could add a conditional to require header versions
> > 3.19, although I am going to submit a bug report to the audit team
> as well.

I was gonna reply with a "depend on linux >= 3.19" but Thomas already
sent a patch to fix it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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