This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/asm: Ensure asm/proto.h can be included stand-alone to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-asm-ensure-asm-proto.h-can-be-included-stand-alo.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 95e394f42c941903792e94d507665a16cc1fea76 Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Apr 11 10:12:16 2021 +0200 x86/asm: Ensure asm/proto.h can be included stand-alone [ Upstream commit f7b21a0e41171d22296b897dac6e4c41d2a3643c ] Fix: ../arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h:14:30: warning: â??struct task_structâ?? declared \ inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration long do_arch_prctl_64(struct task_struct *task, int option, unsigned long arg2); ^~~~~~~~~~~ .../arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h:40:34: warning: â??struct task_structâ?? declared \ inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration long do_arch_prctl_common(struct task_struct *task, int option, ^~~~~~~~~~~ if linux/sched.h hasn't be included previously. This fixes a build error when this header is used outside of the kernel tree. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b76b4be3-cf66-f6b2-9a6c-3e7ef54f9845@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h index 6e81788a30c1..0eaca7a130c9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ #include <asm/ldt.h> +struct task_struct; + /* misc architecture specific prototypes */ void syscall_init(void);