[PATCH] audit: add ppc64 mach support

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Tue Dec 2 23:19:07 UTC 2014


On Tuesday, December 02, 2014 04:27:24 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/12/02, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Monday, December 01, 2014 03:58:09 PM Tony Jones wrote:
> > > Mainline kernel reports ppc64le (per
> > > a0588015deab1844261b27a67ae6f5b910fe2830) but there is no matching
> > > AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE.  Eric just pinged me on irc about it.   Fix to add
> > > it
> > > to include/uapi/linux/audit.h shoudld probably go upstream.
> > 
> > Untested, uncompiled too, but beyond the patch below, is there anything
> > else we would need in the kernel to enable proper ppc64le support?
> 
> Which kernel are you using?  syscall_get_arch() already exists on
> powerpc.  audit_syscall_entry() lost its first argument recently...

That patch was on top of the linux-audit tree, it's based on v3.16 so I 
imagine there have been some changes upstream over the past few months.

> What if it is in compatibility mode?

/me shrugs ... that's why I posted it asking for feedback ;)  I just wanted to 
get the ball rolling on a fix.

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