Re: [2.6.9-ac1] "suid_dumpable" [security/commoncap.ko] undefined

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 13:52:35 EST


On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 18:23, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> Building the kernel reports this when building modules:
>
> *** Warning: "suid_dumpable" [security/commoncap.ko] undefined!
>
> The capability module fails then to load because it depends on
> commoncap. As a consequence bind cannot be run with the -u option to
> switch its user.

Thanks. Add

EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable) to fs/exec.c and that should fix it. I'll
fix it for -ac3

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