Re: UAPI headers including non-UAPI headers by accident?

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2015 09:52:36 Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> [CC += David]
>>
>> On 2 June 2015 at 18:36, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > include/uapi/linux/signal.h starts with:
>> >
>> > #ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_SIGNAL_H
>> > #define _UAPI_LINUX_SIGNAL_H
>> >
>> > #include <asm/signal.h>
>> > #include <asm/siginfo.h>
>> >
>> > This causes it to include <asm/signal.h>, which is not the same thing
>> > as <uapi/asm/signal.h>.  Changing that will break userspace use of
>> > this header, though, as the uapi/ won't get removed.
>> >
>> > What's the correct fix?  This is causing trouble with a UML build for me.
>>
>> Perhaps David has some insight, since he architected the original UAPI split.
>
> The uapi headers are installed without the uapi prefix. This means
> that inside of the kernel, we get
>
>
>  linux/signal.h
>  -> uapi/linux/signal.h
>     -> asm/signal.h
>        -> uapi/asm/signal.h
>
> while in the installed headers we just get
>
>     linux/signal.h
>        -> asm/signal.h
>
> This all looks right to me: user space only sees the exported portions
> under the traditional names, while the kernel sees both the kernel-side
> and user-side definitions from the same path.
>

It seems counterintuitive and error-prone to me that including
<uapi/linux/signal.h> would pull in non-UAPI asm/signal.h declarations
in the kernel but not when used from userspace.  It would make it very
easy to break the header such that it's only broken in a userspace
context.

--Andy


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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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