The audit subsystem treats syscall return codes as type long, unfortunately the audit_get_context() function mistakenly converts the return code to an int type in the parameters which could cause problems on systems where the sizeof(int) != sizeof(long). Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore(a)hp.com&gt; --- kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 8cbddff..8d76dfc 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static void audit_set_auditable(struct audit_context *ctx) static inline struct audit_context *audit_get_context(struct task_struct *tsk, int return_valid, - int return_code) + long return_code) { struct audit_context *context = tsk->audit_context;