linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/uapi: fix asm/signal.h userspace compilation error

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Date:   Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:26:29 -0800
From:   hpa@...or.com
To:     "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org
CC:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/uapi: fix asm/signal.h userspace compilation error

On March 1, 2017 4:18:54 PM PST, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org> wrote:
>Replace size_t to fix the following asm/signal.h userspace compilation
>error:
>
>/usr/include/asm/signal.h:126:2: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
>  size_t ss_size;
>
>size_t is replaced with __kernel_size_t in all cases except x32 where
>unsigned int has to be used instead.
>
>Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@...linux.org>
>---
>v2: create a separate patch for x86,
>    replace size_t instead of including <stddef.h>.
>
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
>b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
>index 8264f47..f80473f 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
>+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/signal.h
>@@ -127,7 +127,11 @@ struct sigaction {
> typedef struct sigaltstack {
> 	void __user *ss_sp;
> 	int ss_flags;
>-	size_t ss_size;
>+#if defined(__x86_64__) && defined(__ILP32__)
>+	unsigned int ss_size;
>+#else
>+	__kernel_size_t ss_size;
>+#endif
> } stack_t;
> 
> #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

Sounds like we still ought to make this a type by itself.
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