Re: [PATCH] linux/uaccess.h needs to #include linux/kernel.h formight_sleep()

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:22:10 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> linux/uaccess.h needs to #include linux/kernel.h to get might_sleep() otherwise
> it fails to build on MN10300 allyesconfig.  This fails in a few places with
> messages like the following:

uaccess.h doesn't textually refer to might_sleep().

> In file included from security/keys/trusted.c:14:
> include/linux/uaccess.h: In function '__copy_from_user_nocache':
> include/linux/uaccess.h:52: error: implicit declaration of function 'might_sleep'

This happened because of arch/mn10300/include/asm/uaccess.h's

#define __copy_from_user(to, from, n)			\
({							\
	might_sleep();					\
	__copy_from_user_inatomic((to), (from), (n));	\
})

>  include/linux/uaccess.h |    1 +

So I'd suggest that patching the arch header file is the appropriate fix.

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