Josh Boyer wrote :
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:59:07 +0200
> Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Am Mittwoch, den 23.04.2008, 13:34 -0500 schrieb Chris Engel:
> > > I can compile aufs from the latest CVS release but when I go to insmod
> > > I get a symbol error :
> > >
> > > aufs: Unknown symbol security_inode_permission
> > >
> > > Looking at security.c it appears the function hasn't been exported so
> > > can't be called by a module.
> > The problem is the solution: Export it and recompile the kernel. A patch
> > can be found in patch/
>
> Is work being done on getting that patch into the upstream kernel at
> all? Forcing people to rebuild their kernel to use aufs seems like it
> would be quite a limiting factor in it's adoption
I don't know.
>
> If not, is there another mechanism that could be used that doesn't
> require the exporting of that symbol?
In Debian, I added a patch to disable the call in aufs. But this may be
bad in terms of security.
>
> josh
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