[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "virtio: don't expose u16 in userspace api" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    virtio: don't expose u16 in userspace api

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a71ad80edd4a9a35935dea2fe93412f779617b35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stephen hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 14:49:41 +0000
Subject: virtio: don't expose u16 in userspace api

[ Upstream commit 77d21f23a1e4db8639e3916547c903a3b3c7a07c ]

Programs using virtio headers outside of kernel will no longer
build because u16 type does not exist in userspace. All user ABI
must use __u16 typedef instead.

Bug introduce by:
  commit 986a4f4d452dec004697f667439d27c3fda9c928
  Author: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
  Date:   Fri Dec 7 07:04:56 2012 +0000

    virtio_net: multiqueue support

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index 848e358..f3857ff 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
  * specified.
  */
 struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq {
-	u16 virtqueue_pairs;
+	__u16 virtqueue_pairs;
 };

 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ   4
--
1.8.1.2