Re: [RFC][PATCH] uapi: Remove the inclusion of linux/mount.h from uapi/linux/fs.h

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:17 PM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We're seeing issues in autofs and xfstests whereby linux/mount.h (the UAPI
> version) as included indirectly by linux/fs.h is conflicting with
> sys/mount.h (there's a struct and an enum).
>
> Would it be possible to just remove the #include from linux/fs.h (as patch
> below) and rely on those hopefully few things that need mount flags that don't
> use the glibc header for them working around it by configuration?
>
> David
> ---
> uapi: Remove the inclusion of linux/mount.h from uapi/linux/fs.h
>
> Remove the inclusion of <linux/mount.h> from uapi/linux/fs.h as it
> interferes with definitions in sys/mount.h - but linux/fs.h is needed by
> various things where mount flags and structs are not.
>
> Note that this will likely have the side effect of causing some build
> failures.
>
> Reported-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org

I think that's probably ok. Looking through the results from

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=MS_RDONLY
combined with the list of results from
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=linux/fs.h

I found 95 packages that mention both /somewhere/ in the code, see
below for a complete list. I did not try an exhaustive search but found
that almost all of these reference the two in different files.

The only counterexample I found is

https://sources.debian.org/src/trinity/1.9+git20200331.4d2343bd18c7b-2/syscalls/mount.c/?hl=13#L13

so this will likely break and have to get fixed to includle <linux/mount.h> or
<sys/mount.h> instead of linux/fs.h, but that is probably acceptable.
There may be others like it, but not a ton of them.

      Arnd

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