[BUG?] Exported private symbols in audit-userspace

[Steve Grubb]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:32:33 +0100
Yuri Gribov <tetra2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a reason for functions below to not be marked as hidden? They
> are not present in audit's public headers so technically there's no
> reason to export them from shlibs. I can see that some symbols (e.g.
> `audit_strsplit_r`) were marked as hidden before but then exported in
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/commit/aa4ed834b7db2f8c7c929bbec9750a6285cf5e39#diff-6085c87000f8d0b00a22de1631168e4e
> 
> _audit_archadded
> _audit_elf
> _audit_exeadded
> _audit_filterfsadded
> audit_msg
> _audit_permadded
> __audit_send
> audit_send
> audit_strsplit
> audit_strsplit_r
> _audit_syscalladded
> auparse_do_interpretation
> _auparse_free_interpretations
> auparse_interp_adjust_type
> _auparse_load_interpretations
> _auparse_lookup_interpretation
> __bss_start
> check_lru_cache
> compute_subject_key
> destroy_lru
> _edata
> _end
> _fini
> _init
> init_lru
> lru_evict

Thanks for pointing this out. The LRU symbols should not be public. I
fixed this in git. The rest are internal use that need to be public but
not advertised.

-Steve

> The issue was found using ShlibVisibilityChecker
> (https://github.com/yugr/ShlibVisibilityChecker).
> 
> Best regards,
> Yury Gribov
> 
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