libauparse exporting clear_config()

[Steve Grubb]

On Saturday, April 12, 2014 02:46:38 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:42:50 -0400,
> 
> Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > On Friday, April 11, 2014 08:54:37 AM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > Le Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:25:42 -0400,
> > > 
> > > Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > > > On Thursday, April 10, 2014 09:06:11 AM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > > > With 2.3.5, libauparse is exporting a new symbol
> > > > > (clear_config())
> > > > > 
> > > > > It seems that all the other symbols are prefixed with either
> > > > > auparse_ or audit_, so is this expected?
> > > > 
> > > > No, this was not expected. It should be an internal use only
> > > > function. Is this causing any symbol collision in a known program?
> > > 
> > > Searching[0] quickly in the code that is present in the debian
> > > archive, I see that at least lxc has the same function name, but I
> > > didn't encounter collision myself.
> > 
> > Thanks for checking this. I don't think lxr would be using auparse,
> > so I think we are safe. That said, the fix is to add the following:
> > 
> > void clear_config(struct daemon_conf *config) hidden;
> > 
> > to auparse/internal.h and then recompile. It's already in svn and
> > will be in the next release, which should be in the next week or so.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Something else somehow related, I just received a bugreport about the
> load_config() function being declared in both auditd core and the
> prelude plugin https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744282

Something seems wrong with that report. the prelude plugin and auditd are two 
entirely different programs. But looking deeper, I wonder if what they meant 
was that the prelude plugin links with auparse which uses the visibility 
settings to hide a load_config function from the ABI?

-Steve