Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

[Martin Schlemmer]

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Hi

Some recent changes to include/linux/sysctl.h breaks glibc.

Problem is that __sysctl_args have been modified to use '__user',
but that is only defined if __KERNEL__ is defined, because that
is the only time compiler.h is included.

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--- linux-2.5.69-bk2/include/linux/sysctl.h	2003-05-05
01:53:31.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.69-bk12/include/linux/sysctl.h	2003-05-18
22:12:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
 				   member of a struct __sysctl_args to have? */
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 struct __sysctl_args {
-	int *name;
+	int __user *name;
 	int nlen;
-	void *oldval;
-	size_t *oldlenp;
-	void *newval;
+	void __user *oldval;
+	size_t __user *oldlenp;
+	void __user *newval;
 	size_t newlen;
 	unsigned long __unused[4];
 };
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Question:  Is this expected behaviour ?

Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer

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