Re: [PATCH] Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h

[Richard Weinberger]

Am Freitag 03 Juni 2011, 01:00:51 schrieb Tony Luck:
> > But there seems to be another problem.
> > Why is pt_regs of type void *?
> > 
> > gcc complains:
> > In file included from include/linux/fsnotify.h:15:0,
> >                 from include/linux/security.h:26,
> >                 from init/main.c:32:
> > include/linux/audit.h: In function ‘audit_syscall_exit’:
> > include/linux/audit.h:440:17: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
> > include/linux/audit.h:440:3: error: invalid use of void expression
> > include/linux/audit.h:441:21: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
> > include/linux/audit.h:441:21: error: void value not ignored as it ought
> > to be
> 
> Perhaps same issue on ia64 - but symptoms are different:

The void * pointer is the problem.
On UML it builds fine when I cast it:
#define regs_return_value(r) UPT_SYSCALL_RET((struct uml_pt_regs *)r)

I'll test it tomorrow in detail, for now I'm too sleepy.

Thanks,
//richard
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