Bug#389673: linux-kernel-headers: Old version of asm-i386/unistd.h in source tarball (hides _syscall* macros)

2006-09-26 Thread Bastian Blank 
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:39:10PM +1000, Ted Percival wrote:
> The linux-kernel-headers 2.6.18 source tarball contains an old version
> of . This old version has the _syscall*
> macros hidden inside an #ifdef __KERNEL__ so userspace cannot use them.

The _syscall macros are not save to use on most architectures. Use the
syscall wrapper.

> The ifdef is on line 327. The source file was fixed in the following
> patch:
> 

This was reverted in e5fa6d70318e4a6a644edbb7d574059e5b326de1.

> According to the Changelog
> () it was
> fixed between 2.6.18-rc5 and 2.6.18-rc6. I checked a couple of more
> recent commits in include/asm-i386 and they are up-to-date in the source
> tarball.

It is the state of the 2.6.18 release.

Bastian

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Bug#389673: linux-kernel-headers: Old version of asm-i386/unistd.h in source tarball (hides _syscall* macros)

2006-09-26 Thread Ted Percival 
Package: linux-kernel-headers
Version: 2.6.18-1
Severity: important

The linux-kernel-headers 2.6.18 source tarball contains an old version
of . This old version has the _syscall*
macros hidden inside an #ifdef __KERNEL__ so userspace cannot use them.

The ifdef is on line 327. The source file was fixed in the following
patch:


According to the Changelog
() it was
fixed between 2.6.18-rc5 and 2.6.18-rc6. I checked a couple of more
recent commits in include/asm-i386 and they are up-to-date in the source
tarball.

-Ted

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