The patch titled
Subject: uapi: fix linux/sysctl.h userspace compilation errors
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors.patch
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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: uapi: fix linux/sysctl.h userspace compilation errors
Include <stddef.h> (guarded by #ifndef __KERNEL__) to fix the following
linux/sysctl.h userspace compilation errors:
/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:38:2: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
size_t *oldlenp;
/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:40:2: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
size_t newlen;
This also fixes userspace compilation of uapi headers that include
linux/sysctl.h, e.g. linux/netfilter.h.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170222230652.GA14373@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h~uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#include <stddef.h> /* For size_t. */
+#endif
+
#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 ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
uapi-fix-linux-sysctlh-userspace-compilation-errors.patch
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