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* [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors
@ 2017-02-20 11:58 Dmitry V. Levin
  2017-02-21 17:10 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry V. Levin @ 2017-02-20 11:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel

Include <sys/socket.h> (guarded by ifndef __KERNEL__) to fix
the following linux/if.h userspace compilation errors:

/usr/include/linux/if.h:234:19: error: field 'ifru_addr' has incomplete type
   struct sockaddr ifru_addr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:235:19: error: field 'ifru_dstaddr' has incomplete type
   struct sockaddr ifru_dstaddr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:236:19: error: field 'ifru_broadaddr' has incomplete type
   struct sockaddr ifru_broadaddr;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:237:19: error: field 'ifru_netmask' has incomplete type
   struct sockaddr ifru_netmask;
/usr/include/linux/if.h:238:20: error: field 'ifru_hwaddr' has incomplete type
   struct  sockaddr ifru_hwaddr;

This also fixes userspace compilation of the following uapi headers:
  linux/atmbr2684.h
  linux/gsmmux.h
  linux/if_arp.h
  linux/if_bonding.h
  linux/if_frad.h
  linux/if_pppox.h
  linux/if_tunnel.h
  linux/netdevice.h
  linux/route.h
  linux/wireless.h

As no uapi header provides a definition of struct sockaddr, inclusion
of <sys/socket.h> seems to be the most conservative and the only safe
fix available.

All current users of <linux/if.h> are very likely to be including
<sys/socket.h> already because the latter is the sole provider
of struct sockaddr definition in libc, so adding a uapi header
with a definition of struct sockaddr would create a potential
conflict with <sys/socket.h>.

Replacing struct sockaddr in the definition of struct ifreq with
a different type would create a potential incompatibility with current
users of struct ifreq who might rely on ifru_addr et al members being
of type struct sockaddr.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
---
 include/uapi/linux/if.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if.h b/include/uapi/linux/if.h
index 1158a04..259617a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if.h
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 #include <linux/socket.h>		/* for "struct sockaddr" et al	*/
 #include <linux/compiler.h>		/* for "__user" et al           */
 
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#include <sys/socket.h>			/* for struct sockaddr.		*/
+#endif
+
 #if __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFNAMSIZ
 #define	IFNAMSIZ	16
 #endif /* __UAPI_DEF_IF_IFNAMSIZ */
-- 
ldv

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2017-02-22  2:29       ` [PATCH 1/2] uapi: add a compatibility layer between linux/time.h and glibc Dmitry V. Levin
2017-02-22  2:29       ` [PATCH 2/2] uapi: add a compatibility layer between linux/uio.h " Dmitry V. Levin
2017-02-22 21:09     ` [PATCH] uapi: fix linux/if.h userspace compilation errors David Miller
2017-09-27 16:46     ` [PATCH 2/2] uapi: add a compatibility layer between linux/uio.h and glibc Lee Duncan

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