Patch "MIPS: Fix siginfo.h to use strict posix types" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

MIPS: Fix siginfo.h to use strict posix types

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mips-fix-siginfo.h-to-use-strict-posix-types.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:43:49 +0000
Subject: MIPS: Fix siginfo.h to use strict posix types

From: James Hogan <[email protected]>

commit 5daebc477da4dfeb31ae193d83084def58fd2697 upstream.

Commit 85efde6f4e0d ("make exported headers use strict posix types") changed the asm-generic siginfo.h to use the __kernel_* types, and commit 3a471cbc081b ("remove __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES") make the internal types accessible only to the kernel, but the MIPS implementation hasn't been updated to match.

Switch to proper types now so that the exported asm/siginfo.h won't produce quite so many compiler errors when included alone by a user program.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12477/

---
 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
 
 		/* kill() */
 		struct {
-			pid_t _pid;		/* sender's pid */
+			__kernel_pid_t _pid;	/* sender's pid */
 			__ARCH_SI_UID_T _uid;	/* sender's uid */
 		} _kill;
 
 		/* POSIX.1b timers */
 		struct {
-			timer_t _tid;		/* timer id */
+			__kernel_timer_t _tid;	/* timer id */
 			int _overrun;		/* overrun count */
 			char _pad[sizeof( __ARCH_SI_UID_T) - sizeof(int)];
 			sigval_t _sigval;	/* same as below */

@@ -57,26 +57,26 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
 
 		/* POSIX.1b signals */
 		struct {
-			pid_t _pid;		/* sender's pid */
+			__kernel_pid_t _pid;	/* sender's pid */
 			__ARCH_SI_UID_T _uid;	/* sender's uid */
 			sigval_t _sigval;
 		} _rt;
 
 		/* SIGCHLD */
 		struct {
-			pid_t _pid;		/* which child */
+			__kernel_pid_t _pid;	/* which child */
 			__ARCH_SI_UID_T _uid;	/* sender's uid */
 			int _status;		/* exit code */
-			clock_t _utime;
-			clock_t _stime;
+			__kernel_clock_t _utime;
+			__kernel_clock_t _stime;
 		} _sigchld;
 
 		/* IRIX SIGCHLD */
 		struct {
-			pid_t _pid;		/* which child */
-			clock_t _utime;
+			__kernel_pid_t _pid;	/* which child */
+			__kernel_clock_t _utime;
 			int _status;		/* exit code */
-			clock_t _stime;
+			__kernel_clock_t _stime;
 		} _irix_sigchld;
 
 		/* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/mips64-r6-r2-emulation-bugfix.patch queue-4.4/mips-fix-uapi-include-in-exported-asm-siginfo.h.patch queue-4.4/mips-disable-preemption-during-prctl-pr_set_fp_mode.patch queue-4.4/mips-fix-sigreturn-via-vdso-on-micromips-kernel.patch queue-4.4/mips-fix-siginfo.h-to-use-strict-posix-types.patch queue-4.4/mips-don-t-unwind-to-user-mode-with-eva.patch queue-4.4/mips-vdso-build-with-fno-strict-aliasing.patch queue-4.4/mips-fix-watchpoint-restoration.patch queue-4.4/mips-build-micromips-vdso-for-micromips-kernels.patch queue-4.4/mips-math-emu-fix-jalr-emulation-when-rd-0.patch queue-4.4/mips-fix-msa-ld_-st_-asm-macros-to-use-ptr_addu.patch queue-4.4/mips-avoid-using-unwind_stack-with-usermode.patch queue-4.4/mips-prevent-restoration-of-msa-context-in-non-msa-kernels.patch queue-4.4/mips-use-copy_s.fmt-rather-than-copy_u.fmt.patch