On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann: > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 7:41 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > >> > >> * Arnd Bergmann: > >> > >> > diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h > >> > b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h > >> > index 0d0fddb7e738..976e89b116e5 100644 > >> > --- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h > >> > +++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h > >> > @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ > >> > #ifndef _UAPI_ASM_SOCKET_H > >> > #define _UAPI_ASM_SOCKET_H > >> > > >> > +#include <linux/posix_types.h> > >> > #include <asm/sockios.h> > >> > -#include <asm/bitsperlong.h> > >> > >> This breaks POSIX conformance in glibc because the > >> <linux/posix_types.h> header is not namespace clean. It contains the > >> identifiers fds_bits and val: > >> > >> unsigned long fds_bits[__FD_SETSIZE / (8 * sizeof(long))]; > >> > >> int val[2]; > > > > What is problematic about the struct members here? I had thought that > > only the struct names have to be in a namespace to be usable here, > > but not the members. > > According POSIX, a user can do this: > > #define fds_bits 1024 > > before including the <sys/socket.h> header file. Similarly for val. > > Since glibc pulls in <asm/socket.h> indirectly, the result is a parse > error, even though the programmer did nothing wrong (fds_bits is not > an identifier used by POSIX, nor is it in the implementation > namespace, ans <sys/socket.h> is a POSIX header). > > > We could use asm/posix_types.h instead of linux/posix_types.h, > > would that address your concern? > > It should fix the fds_bits case, I think. But > <asm-generic/posix_types.h> still uses val, so that part of the issue > remains.
Would moving kernel namespace types(__kernel prefix) to a different header file(kernel_types.h?) and then including this from linux/posix_types.h. And, for socket.h just including kernel_types.h make sense? -Deepa
