Re: [PATCH] arch/um: falloc.h needs to be directly included for older libc

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Mar 29 2020 - 17:41:54 EST


On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 4:58 PM Anton Ivanov
<anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 17/03/2020 17:35, Alan Maguire wrote:
> > When building UML with glibc 2.17 installed, compilation
> > of arch/um/os-Linux/file.c fails due to failure to find
> > FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE definitions.
> >
> > It appears that /usr/include/bits/fcntl-linux.h (indirectly
> > included by /usr/include/fcntl.h) does not include falloc.h
> > with an older glibc, whereas a more up-to-date version
> > does.
> >
> > Adding the direct include to file.c resolves the issue
> > and does not cause problems for more recent glibc.
> >
> > Fixes: 50109b5a03b4 ("um: Add support for DISCARD in the UBD Driver")
> > Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/um/os-Linux/file.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c
> > index fbda105..5c819f8 100644
> > --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c
> > +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c
> > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> > #include <errno.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <signal.h>
> > +#include <linux/falloc.h>
> > #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> > #include <sys/mount.h>
> > #include <sys/socket.h>
> >
>
> Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

BTW: Anton & Brendan, thanks a lot for reviewing all these patches!

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Thanks,
//richard