On Redhat 9.4/9.5 make ksmbd fails due to missing genhd.h for vfs.c

[besterino]

Error:

make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64'
CC [M] /home/test/ksmbd/unicode.o
CC [M] /home/test/ksmbd/auth.o
CC [M] /home/test/ksmbd/vfs.o
/home/test/ksmbd/vfs.c:19:10: fatal error: linux/genhd.h: No such file or directory
19 | #include <linux/genhd.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:249: /home/bestie/ksmbd/vfs.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1944: /home/bestie/ksmbd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64'
make: *** [Makefile:47: all] Error 2

Seems genhd.h is no longer included but still expected for this particular kernel?

uname -r:
5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64

[hireworksltd]

Looks likes genhd.h was removed in 5.19.8 (though not sure why you're seeing this in 5.14, guess RH specific)

see: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/t/

try changing it for <linux/blkdev.h>

Cheers,
Jon

[besterino]

I tried blkdev.h instead of genhd.h, but that threw a lot of (other) errors, so that is not really a fix.