• Change of set_fs() in uaccess.h breaks this header being self conta

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_M=c3=a4tje?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 2 14:20:02 2017
    Am 30.09.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Al Viro:
    On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:32:19PM +0200, Stefan Mätje wrote:
    Hi,

    there is a change in Linus' mainline kernel
    (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h?id=6c51e67b64d169419fb13318035bb442f9176612)
    that changes the set_fs() macro into an inline function.

    This breaks the build of an out of kernel driver I maintain with this
    message:

    ./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h: In function ‘set_fs’:
    ./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:31:9: error: dereferencing pointer to
    incomplete type

    set_fs() is referencing the "current" pointer which is of type "struct
    task_struct" declared in include/linux/sched.h.

    Before the change set_fs() was a macro. Because I don't use it it was of
    no concern for me. But now the compiler needs to compile the inline
    function set_fs() and fails.

    Should I add the needed <linux/sched.h> myself in my code or will that
    be changed / fixed in the <asm/uaccess.h> header by including the
    missing header.

    Use linux/uaccess.h. That's the only file that has any business pulling asm/uaccess.h.

    Again, any code that includes asm/uaccess.h directly is wrong and will be hurt more and more as the time goes and more and more things get moved
    from arch-dependent into generic parts.

    Hi,

    thank you for having a look at this. I had resent my question with a
    changed subject here https://lkml.org/lkml/headers/2017/9/19/242 and it
    had been answered.

    I have changed the include to <linux/uaccess.h> in the meantime.

    Best regards,
    Stefan Mätje

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