Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: uapi: Provide an UAPI definition of 'struct sockaddr'

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 15:13:13 -0800

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:32:52 +0100 Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> As for the failure in netdev CI however I am not so sure.
> Looking at net-next-2026-01-05--12-00, the only failures triggered by my
> change are also the ones from the bpf-ci. Are these the ones you meant,
> or am I missing some others?

Multiple things broke at once so slightly hard to fish the relevant
stuff out from here:

https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?branch=net-next-2026-01-05--15-00&pass=0&pw-n=0

Here's one:

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/virtme/testing/wt-3/tools/testing/selftests/net'
  CC       busy_poller
In file included from [01m[K/usr/include/sys/socket.h:33[m[K,
                 from [01m[K/usr/include/netinet/in.h:23[m[K,
                 from [01m[K/usr/include/arpa/inet.h:22[m[K,
                 from [01m[Kbusy_poller.c:14[m[K:
[01m[K/usr/include/bits/socket.h:182:8:[m[K [01;31m[Kerror: [m[Kredefinition of '[01m[Kstruct sockaddr[m[K'
  182 | struct [01;31m[Ksockaddr[m[K
      |        [01;31m[K^~~~~~~~[m[K
In file included from [01m[K/home/virtme/testing/wt-3/usr/include/linux/netlink.h:6[m[K,
                 from [01m[K/home/virtme/testing/wt-3/usr/include/linux/genetlink.h:6[m[K,
                 from [01m[K/home/virtme/testing/wt-3/tools/testing/selftests/../../../tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.h:7[m[K,
                 from [01m[Kbusy_poller.c:12[m[K:
[01m[K/home/virtme/testing/wt-3/usr/include/linux/socket.h:37:8:[m[K [01;36m[Knote: [m[Koriginally defined here
   37 | struct [01;36m[Ksockaddr[m[K {
      |        [01;36m[K^~~~~~~~[m[K
make[1]: *** [../lib.mk:225: /home/virtme/testing/wt-3/tools/testing/selftests/net/busy_poller] Error 1

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