From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ebtables: fix arm64 build with kernel headers >= 7.3
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:52:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <at5sIIWcxy_2O2mc@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261024161704.4144810-1-yegorslists@googlemail.com>
On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 06:17:04PM +0200, Yegor Yefremov via buildroot wrote:
> With kernel headers 7.3, ebtables fails to build on arm64:
>
> [...]/sysroot/usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:81:9: error: unknown type name '__u128'; did you mean '__u32'?
>
> Linux 7.3 changed arm64's asm/sigcontext.h to use the __u128 type from
> linux/types.h. ebtables bundles an old copy of linux/types.h, lacking
> __u128, which shadows the one from the kernel headers.
>
> Backport the upstream commit dropping the bundled copy. ebtables only
> needs __be16 and __be32 from it, which all supported kernel headers
> provide.
>
> This issue has been present since commit b216661a73f7
> ("{toolchain, linux-headers}: add support for 7.3 headers"), which made
> 7.3 the latest kernel headers version. It only affects master, no
> release or maintenance branch has 7.3 headers.
>
> Fixes: b216661a73f7b8e21290a1bc9033e7f9b5fb230e ("{toolchain, linux-headers}: add support for 7.3 headers")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
> Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Applied to master, thanks!
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
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2026-10-24 16:17 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ebtables: fix arm64 build with kernel headers >= 7.3 Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
2026-10-24 21:16 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-24 22:09 ` Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
2026-10-25 20:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
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