On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:21:19 +0200 Leon Romanovsky <l...@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@mellanox.com> > > As was reported [1], the iproute2 fails to compile on old systems, > in Cong's case, it was Fedora 19, in our case it was RedHat 7.2, which > failed with the following errors during compilation: > > ipxfrm.c: In function ‘xfrm_selector_print’: > ipxfrm.c:479:7: error: ‘IPPROTO_MH’ undeclared (first use in this > function) > case IPPROTO_MH: > ^ > ipxfrm.c:479:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once > for each function it appears in > ipxfrm.c: In function ‘xfrm_selector_upspec_parse’: > ipxfrm.c:1345:8: error: ‘IPPROTO_MH’ undeclared (first use in this > function) > case IPPROTO_MH: > ^ > > make[1]: *** [ipxfrm.o] Error 1 > > The reason to it is the order of headers files. The IPPROTO_MH field is > set in kernel's UAPI header file (in6.h), but only in case > __UAPI_DEF_IPPROTO_V6 is set before. That define comes from other kernel's > header file (libc-compat.h) and is set in case there are no previous > libc relevant declarations. > > In ip code, the include of <netdb.h> causes to indirect inclusion of > <netinet/in.h> and it sets __UAPI_DEF_IPPROTO_V6 to be zero and prevents from > IPPROTO_MH declaration. > > This patch takes the simplest possible approach to fix the compilation > error by checking if IPPROTO_MH was defined before and in case it > wasn't, it defines it to be the same as in the kernel. > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg463980.html > > Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> > Cc: Riad Abo Raed <ri...@mellanox.com> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@mellanox.com> > --- > ip/xfrm.h | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/ip/xfrm.h b/ip/xfrm.h > index 8566d639..71be574d 100644 > --- a/ip/xfrm.h > +++ b/ip/xfrm.h > @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ > #include <linux/xfrm.h> > #include <linux/ipsec.h> > > +#ifndef IPPROTO_MH > +#define IPPROTO_MH 135 > +#endif > + Is there some way to add an additional header to the file instead? Doing local definitions seems like it might cause a future issue.
