diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 2e17c5dbdcb8a97b0e243868e43179d599637e18..180540a84d3736041b9030e39eaf00889dfbfbb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #define MAX_LINKS 32		
 
 struct sockaddr_nl {
-	sa_family_t	nl_family;	/* AF_NETLINK	*/
+	__kernel_sa_family_t	nl_family;	/* AF_NETLINK	*/
 	unsigned short	nl_pad;		/* zero		*/
 	__u32		nl_pid;		/* port ID	*/
        	__u32		nl_groups;	/* multicast groups mask */
diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index e17f82266639e8b2a54763ebc089e482fb50a2ca..d0e77f607a7989ccc7336d9abf895b82abe88b61 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 #define _K_SS_ALIGNSIZE	(__alignof__ (struct sockaddr *))
 				/* Implementation specific desired alignment */
 
+typedef unsigned short __kernel_sa_family_t;
+
 struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage {
-	unsigned short	ss_family;		/* address family */
+	__kernel_sa_family_t	ss_family;		/* address family */
 	/* Following field(s) are implementation specific */
 	char		__data[_K_SS_MAXSIZE - sizeof(unsigned short)];
 				/* space to achieve desired size, */
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ struct seq_file;
 extern void socket_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq);
 #endif
 
-typedef unsigned short	sa_family_t;
+typedef __kernel_sa_family_t	sa_family_t;
 
 /*
  *	1003.1g requires sa_family_t and that sa_data is char.