• Masahiro Yamada's avatar
    kbuild: prevent exported headers from including <stdlib.h>, <stdbool.h> · 02a6e4be
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Some UAPI headers included <stdlib.h>, like this:
    
      #ifndef __KERNEL__
      #include <stdlib.h>
      #endif
    
    As it turned out, they just included it for no good reason.
    
    After some fixes, now I can compile-test UAPI headers
    (CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST=y) without including <stdlib.h> from the
    system header search paths.
    
    To avoid somebody getting it back again, this commit adds the dummy
    header, usr/dummy-include/stdlib.h
    
    I added $(srctree)/usr/dummy-include to the header search paths.
    Because it is searched before the system directories, if someone
    tries to include <stdlib.h>, they will see the error message.
    
    While I am here, I also replaced $(objtree)/usr/include with $(obj),
    but it has no functional change.
    
    If we can make kernel headers self-contained (that is, none of exported
    kernel headers includes system headers), we will be able to add the
    -nostdinc flag, but that is much far from where we stand now.
    
    As a realistic solution, we can ban header inclusion individually by
    putting a dummy header into usr/dummy-include/.
    
    Currently, no header include <stdbool.h>. I put it as well before somebody
    attempts to use it.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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