--- /dev/null
+From 9867a9d6a21e6b0b9bcba57c3e2398fe671cea17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christian Storm <christian.storm@siemens.com>
+Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:34:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] compat.h: introduce compatibility header
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+
+Introduce a compat.h housing compatibility definitions
+and macros along the lines of commit 7b49b8d having
+introduced a compatibility mechanism for Lua.
+
+First use case (and motivation) is the support for
+musl (https://www.musl-libc.org/) which doesn't
+bother to provide
+ char *strndupa(const char *s, size_t n)
+
+Backported from: 9867a9d6a21e6b0b9bcba57c3e2398fe671cea17
+
+Reviewed-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
+Reported-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
+Signed-off-by: Christian Storm <christian.storm@siemens.com>
+Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
+---
+ include/compat.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ include/util.h | 1 +
+ ipc/network_ipc.c | 1 +
+ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
+ create mode 100644 include/compat.h
+
+diff --git a/include/compat.h b/include/compat.h
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..29d7af1
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/include/compat.h
+@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
++/*
++ * Author: Christian Storm
++ * Copyright (C) 2018, Siemens AG
++ *
++ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
++ */
++
++#pragma once
++
++#ifndef strndupa
++/*
++ * Define char *strndupa(const char *s, size_t n)
++ * for, e.g., musl (https://www.musl-libc.org/)
++ * which does not bother to implement this function.
++ */
++#define strndupa(s, n) \
++ (__extension__({ \
++ const char *__in = (s); \
++ size_t __len = strnlen(__in, (n)) + 1; \
++ char *__out = (char *)alloca(__len); \
++ __out[__len - 1] = '\0'; \
++ (char *)memcpy(__out, __in, __len - 1); \
++ }))
++#endif
+diff --git a/include/util.h b/include/util.h
+index bec2975..d43cd8c 100644
+--- a/include/util.h
++++ b/include/util.h
+@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include "swupdate.h"
+ #include "swupdate_status.h"
++#include "compat.h"
+
+ #define NOTIFY_BUF_SIZE 2048
+ #define ENOMEM_ASPRINTF -1
+diff --git a/ipc/network_ipc.c b/ipc/network_ipc.c
+index 3f197c7..48f6fcc 100644
+--- a/ipc/network_ipc.c
++++ b/ipc/network_ipc.c
+@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
+ #include <pthread.h>
+
+ #include "network_ipc.h"
++#include "compat.h"
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_SOCKET_CTRL_PATH
+ static char* SOCKET_CTRL_PATH = (char*)CONFIG_SOCKET_CTRL_PATH;
+--
+2.15.1
+