This fixes a compile problem of some user space applications by not
including linux/libc-compat.h in uapi/if_ether.h.
linux/libc-compat.h checks which "features" the header files, included
from the libc, provide to make the Linux kernel uapi header files only
provide no conflicting structures and enums. If a user application mixes
kernel headers and libc headers it could happen that linux/libc-compat.h
gets included too early where not all other libc headers are included
yet. Then the linux/libc-compat.h would not prevent all the
redefinitions and we run into compile problems.
This patch removes the include of linux/libc-compat.h from
uapi/if_ether.h to fix the recently introduced case, but not all as this
is more or less impossible.
It is no problem to do the check directly in the if_ether.h file and not
in libc-compat.h as this does not need any fancy glibc header detection
as glibc never provided struct ethhdr and should define
__UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR by them self when they will provide this.
The following test program did not compile correctly any more:
int main(void)
{
return 0;
}
Fixes: 6926e041a892 ("uapi/if_ether.h: prevent redefinition of struct ethhdr")
Reported-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.15
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 6 +++++-
include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h | 6 ------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
index f8cb5760ea4f..8bbbcb5cd94b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
#define _UAPI_LINUX_IF_ETHER_H
#include <linux/types.h>
-#include <linux/libc-compat.h>
/*
* IEEE 802.3 Ethernet magic constants. The frame sizes omit the preamble
@@ -151,6 +150,11 @@
* This is an Ethernet frame header.
*/
+/* allow libcs like musl to deactivate this, glibc does not implement this. */
+#ifndef __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR
+#define __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR 1
+#endif
+
#if __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR
struct ethhdr {
unsigned char h_dest[ETH_ALEN]; /* destination eth addr */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h b/include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h
index fc29efaa918c..8254c937c9f4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h
@@ -264,10 +264,4 @@
#endif /* __GLIBC__ */
-/* Definitions for if_ether.h */
-/* allow libcs like musl to deactivate this, glibc does not implement this. */
-#ifndef __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR
-#define __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR 1
-#endif
-
#endif /* _UAPI_LIBC_COMPAT_H */
--
2.11.0