netdev - Re: [PATCH] uapi/if_ether.h: move __UAPI_DEF

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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:52:26 +0100
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     hauke@...ke-m.de, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi/if_ether.h: move __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR libc define

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:24:07AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:01:26 +0100
> 
> > On 02/12/2018 11:59 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >> 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;
> >> }
> > 
> > git removed the included here:
> > 
> > #include <linux/if_ether.h>
> > #include <netinet/in.h>
> > #include <linux/in.h>
> > 
> > int main(void)
> > {
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> 
> Applied with this fixed up, thanks!

Works fine. Thanks Hauke!