Change to common source file not directly applicable to open-vm-tools.

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/vgauth/serviceImpl/saml-xmlsec1.c b/open-vm-tools/vgauth/serviceImpl/saml-xmlsec1.c
index 917e49f4b10552ea51533c6c336770da57c7a94e..10e5cc83d4c9366bbdf15087d323c04091887fdf 100644 (file)
--- a/open-vm-tools/vgauth/serviceImpl/saml-xmlsec1.c
+++ b/open-vm-tools/vgauth/serviceImpl/saml-xmlsec1.c
@@ -1424,9 +1424,10 @@ VerifySignature(xmlDocPtr doc,
     * dsigCtx->status can be at the wrong offset.  So
     * dump the value of status, which should be either
     * 1 (xmlSecDSigStatusSucceeded) or 2 (xmlSecDSigStatusInvalid).
-    * If its something else, that's a sign there's a
-    * build issue and XMLSEC_NO_SIZE_T may be set at one layer but
-    * not the other.
+    * If its something else, that could be a sign that there's a build issue
+    * and that libxmlsec1 is using a different size type than its callers.
+    * Please see xmlSecSize changelog in
+    * https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/news.html
     *
     */
    if (dsigCtx->status != xmlSecDSigStatusSucceeded) {

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/vgauth/test/README.txt b/open-vm-tools/vgauth/test/README.txt
index ae1d8a462652dc5d2c7034d4135639518ded07a1..55790a8e01b23b64b876bda05ea079dc06a52fec 100644 (file)
--- a/open-vm-tools/vgauth/test/README.txt
+++ b/open-vm-tools/vgauth/test/README.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  *       - SAML verification failed to init (xmlsec1 build issues)
  *    - token fails to validate
  *       - this test was run after 12/18/3015
- *       - xmlsec1-config lies about how xmlsec1 was built
- *          some packages leave out -DXMLSEC_NO_SIZE_T,
- *          which can make some data structures a different size
- *          than in the library
+ *       - libxmlsec1 may have been built using a different size type than
+ *         its callers, which can make some data structures a different size
+ *         than in the library. See xmlSecSize changelog in
+ *         https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/news.html