Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz uploaded

[Paul Moore]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 3:34:24 pm Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The kernel build fails, in selinux with following error
>
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> security/built-in.o(.toc1+0x928): undefined reference to
> `selinux_xfrm_refcount' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 11/20/2007-14:42:08 Build the kernel. Failed rc = 2
> 11/20/2007-14:42:08 build: Building kernel... Failed rc = 1
>
> The patch causing this error is git-lblnet.patch, where in the
> selinux_xfrm_enabled() is called from security/selinux/hooks.c, depends on
> the extern atomic_tselinux_xfrm_refcount.

The problem appears to be that the selinux_xfrm_refcount functionality is not 
properly protected by CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM.  I'm fixing that now.

-- 
paul moore
linux security @ hp
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