Re: scripts/selinux build error in 4.14 after glibc update

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:00 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After a glibc update to 2.29, my 4.14 builds started failing like so:

...

>   HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
> In file included from scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders.c:19:
> ./security/selinux/include/classmap.h:245:2: error: #error New address family defined, please update secclass_map.
>  #error New address family defined, please update secclass_map.
>   ^~~~~

This is a known problem that has a fix in the selinux/next branch and
will be going up to Linus during the next merge window.  The fix is
quite small and should be relatively easy for you to backport to your
kernel build if you are interested; the patch can be found at the
archive link below:

https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20190225005528.28371-1-paulo@xxxxxxxx

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