Re: kern/37962: libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

Agree 100%.

-- thorpej@iPhone

On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> ad%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
>
> > > Number:         37962
> > > Category:       kern
> > > Synopsis:       libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition
> > > Confidential:   no
> > > Severity:       serious
> > > Priority:       medium
> > > Responsible:    kern-bug-people
> > > State:          open
> > > Class:          sw-bug
> > > Submitter-Id:   net
> > > Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 05 15:30:00 +0000 2008
> > > Originator:     Andrew Doran
> > > Release:        4.99.52
> > > Organization:
> > The NetBSD Project
> > > Environment:
> > n/a
> > > Description:
> > libkvm has a private, dup definition of kauth_cred and this is
> > out of sync with the kernel.
> > > How-To-Repeat:
> > Code inspection.
> > > Fix:
> > Share definition of struct kauth_cred between kernel and kmem  
> > grovellers.
>
> This does seem like a very good reason to keep this structure in a
> private shared header file somewhere...
>
> Simon.