[PATCH V2 03/17] asm-generic: fcntl: compat: Remove duplicate definitions
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Tue Jan 11 03:30:16 AEDT 2022
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:35:19PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_COMPAT)
> > #ifndef F_GETLK64
> > #define F_GETLK64 12 /* using 'struct flock64' */
> > #define F_SETLK64 13
>
> The problem here is that include/uapi/ headers cannot contain checks for
> CONFIG_* symbols because those may have different meanings in user space
> compared to kernel.
>
> This is a preexisting problem in the header, but I think the change
> makes it worse.
FYI, this is what I did in my old branch, which also sidesteps the
duplicate value problem on parisc. The rebase is untested so far,
but I can spend some cycles on finishing it:
http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/fcntl-asm-generic-cleanup
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