Index: lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_syscalls.inc
===================================================================
--- lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_syscalls.inc
+++ lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_syscalls.inc
@@ -1443,6 +1443,7 @@
 
 POST_SYSCALL(fchown)(long res, long fd, long user, long group) {}
 
+#if SANITIZER_USES_UID16_SYSCALLS
 PRE_SYSCALL(chown16)(const void *filename, long user, long group) {
   if (filename)
     PRE_READ(filename,
@@ -1552,6 +1553,7 @@
 PRE_SYSCALL(getegid16)() {}
 
 POST_SYSCALL(getegid16)(long res) {}
+#endif // SANITIZER_USES_UID16_SYSCALLS
 
 PRE_SYSCALL(utime)(void *filename, void *times) {}
 
Index: lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform.h
===================================================================
--- lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform.h
+++ lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform.h
@@ -111,6 +111,19 @@
 # endif
 #endif
 
+// udi16 syscalls can only be used when the following conditions are
+// met:
+// * target is one of arm32, x86-32, sparc32, sh or m68k
+// * libc version is libc5, glibc-2.0, glibc-2.1 or glibc-2.2 to 2.15
+//   built against > linux-2.2 kernel headers
+// Since we don't want to include libc headers here, we check the
+// target only.
+#if defined(__arm__) || SANITIZER_X32 || defined(__sparc__)
+#define SANITIZER_USES_UID16_SYSCALLS 1
+#else
+#define SANITIZER_USES_UID16_SYSCALLS 0
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __mips__
 # define SANITIZER_POINTER_FORMAT_LENGTH FIRST_32_SECOND_64(8, 10)
 #else
Index: lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc
===================================================================
--- lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc
+++ lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@
 CHECK_TYPE_SIZE(__kernel_uid_t);
 CHECK_TYPE_SIZE(__kernel_gid_t);
 
-#if !defined(__aarch64__)
+#if SANITIZER_USES_UID16_SYSCALLS
 CHECK_TYPE_SIZE(__kernel_old_uid_t);
 CHECK_TYPE_SIZE(__kernel_old_gid_t);
 #endif