This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions to the 4.4-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-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Aug 9 11:19:16 PDT 2017 From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:38:31 +0100 Subject: x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fac69d0efad08fc15e4dbfc116830782acc0dc9a ] Add the missing declarations of basic string functions to string.h to allow a clean build. Fixes: 5be865661516 ("String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483781911-21399-1-git-send-email-hofrat@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/boot/string.c | 1 + arch/x86/boot/string.h | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #include "ctype.h" +#include "string.h" int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len) { --- a/arch/x86/boot/string.h +++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.h @@ -18,4 +18,13 @@ int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s #define memset(d,c,l) __builtin_memset(d,c,l) #define memcmp __builtin_memcmp +extern int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2); +extern int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count); +extern size_t strlen(const char *s); +extern char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2); +extern size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen); +extern unsigned int atou(const char *s); +extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *cp, char **endp, + unsigned int base); + #endif /* BOOT_STRING_H */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hofrat@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch