The patch titled
Subject: uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures.patch
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures
Don't user forward declarations of internal kernel structures
in headers exported to userspace.
Move "struct completion;".
Move "struct task_struct;".
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713215808.GA22486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/capability.h | 1 +
include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/capability.h | 2 --
include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 2 --
4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/capability.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures include/linux/capability.h
--- a/include/linux/capability.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures
+++ a/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
struct file;
struct inode;
struct dentry;
+struct task_struct;
struct user_namespace;
extern const kernel_cap_t __cap_empty_set;
diff -puN include/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures include/linux/sysctl.h
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures
+++ a/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <uapi/linux/sysctl.h>
/* For the /proc/sys support */
+struct completion;
struct ctl_table;
struct nsproxy;
struct ctl_table_root;
diff -puN include/uapi/linux/capability.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures include/uapi/linux/capability.h
--- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
-struct task_struct;
-
/* User-level do most of the mapping between kernel and user
capabilities based on the version tag given by the kernel. The
kernel might be somewhat backwards compatible, but don't bet on
diff -puN include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
-struct completion;
-
#define CTL_MAXNAME 10 /* how many path components do we allow in a
call to sysctl? In other words, what is
the largest acceptable value for the nlen
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are
cflags-add-wunused-but-set-parameter.patch
kbuild-simpler-generation-of-assembly-constants.patch
mm-faster-kmalloc_array-kcalloc.patch
uapi-move-forward-declarations-of-internal-structures.patch
ban-config_localversion_auto-with-allmodconfig.patch
ipc-delete-nr_ipc_ns.patch
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