Le 02/03/2026 à 08:58, Thomas Weißschuh a écrit :
When building the compat vDSO the CHECKFLAGS from the 64-bit kernel are used. These are combined with the 32-bit CFLAGS. This confuses sparse, producing false-positive warnings or potentially missing real issues. Manually override the CHECKFLAGS for the compat vDSO with the correct 32-bit configuration. Not all architectures are supported, as many do not use sparse for their (compat) vDSO. These can be enabled later. Also add some checks to bitsperlong.h to detect such issues earlier. Based on tip/timers/vdso. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]> --- Changes in v2: - Simplify __BITS_PER_LONG consistency checks - Fix an inconsistency in the powerpc audit code
The powerpc audit code should be replaced by generic AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC, as there is no difference between them apparently.
A tentative was made in the past but was declined by audit maintainers because we were not able to test it allthought the failure was the same before and after the patch, see https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
Christophe
