Patch "x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions

to the 4.9-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:
x86-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:38:31 +0100
Subject: x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit fac69d0efad08fc15e4dbfc116830782acc0dc9a ]

Add the missing declarations of basic string functions to string.h to allow a clean build.

---
 arch/x86/boot/string.c |    1 +
 arch/x86/boot/string.h |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include "ctype.h"
+#include "string.h"
 
 int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
 {

@@ -18,4 +18,13 @@ int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s
 #define memset(d,c,l) __builtin_memset(d,c,l)
 #define memcmp	__builtin_memcmp
 
+extern int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
+extern int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count);
+extern size_t strlen(const char *s);
+extern char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2);
+extern size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen);
+extern unsigned int atou(const char *s);
+extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *cp, char **endp,
+					  unsigned int base);
+
 #endif /* BOOT_STRING_H */

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

queue-4.9/x86-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch