libauparse exporting clear_config()

[Laurent Bigonville]

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

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville