[PATCH xenial] ethtool.h: define INT_MAX for userland

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jun 15 18:15:57 UTC 2016


Oh, actually, this needs a Launchpad bug for tracking... Andy, please
file one and let us know the bug number.  Thanks!

 -Kamal


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:40:59PM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
> 
> INT_MAX needs limits.h in userland.
> When ethtool.h is included by a userland app, we got the following error:
> 
> .../usr/include/linux/ethtool.h: In function 'ethtool_validate_speed':
> .../usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:1471:18: error: 'INT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
>   return speed <= INT_MAX || speed == SPEED_UNKNOWN
>                   ^
> Fixes: 72f843bdbdca ("ethtool: make validate_speed accept all speeds between 0 and INT_MAX")
> CC: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> (cherry picked from commit 14e2037902d65213842b4e40305ff54a64abbcb6)
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo at cumulusnetworks.com>
> Reported-by: Iain Lane <iain at orangesquash.org.uk>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> index f1b71ca..3032139 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  #include <linux/if_ether.h>
>  
> +#ifndef __KERNEL__
> +#include <limits.h> /* for INT_MAX */
> +#endif
> +
>  /* All structures exposed to userland should be defined such that they
>   * have the same layout for 32-bit and 64-bit userland.
>   */
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 
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