--- a/include/linux/compat-2.6.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat-2.6.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ void compat_dependency_symbol(void);
 #include <linux/compat-3.6.h>
 #include <linux/compat-3.7.h>
 #include <linux/compat-3.8.h>
+#include <linux/compat-3.9.h>
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/compat-3.9.h
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_3_9_COMPAT_H
+#define LINUX_3_9_COMPAT_H
+
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,9,0))
+
+#include <linux/idr.h>
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,25))
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
+#endif
+#include <net/sock.h>
+#include <linux/tty.h>
+#include <linux/tty_flip.h>
+
+/* include this before changing hlist_for_each_* to use the old versions. */
+#include <net/sch_generic.h>
+
+
+/**
+ * backport of idr idr_alloc() usage
+ * 
+ * This backports a patch series send by Tejun Heo:
+ * https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2/159
+ */
+static inline void compat_idr_destroy(struct idr *idp)
+{
+	idr_remove_all(idp);
+	idr_destroy(idp);
+}
+#define idr_destroy(idp) compat_idr_destroy(idp)
+
+static inline int idr_alloc(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, int start, int end,
+			    gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	int id, ret;
+
+	do {
+		if (!idr_pre_get(idr, gfp_mask))
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		ret = idr_get_new_above(idr, ptr, start, &id);
+		if (!ret && id > end) {
+			idr_remove(idr, id);
+			ret = -ENOSPC;
+		}
+	} while (ret == -EAGAIN);
+
+	return ret ? ret : id;
+}
+
+static inline void idr_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void idr_preload_end(void)
+{
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * backport:
+ *
+ * commit 0bbacca7c3911451cea923b0ad6389d58e3d9ce9
+ * Author: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
+ * Date:   Thu Feb 7 12:32:18 2013 +1100
+ *
+ *     hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
+ */
+
+#define hlist_entry_safe(ptr, type, member) \
+	(ptr) ? hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL
+
+#undef hlist_for_each_entry
+/**
+ * hlist_for_each_entry	- iterate over list of given type
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @head:	the head for your list.
+ * @member:	the name of the hlist_node within the struct.
+ */
+#define hlist_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)					\
+	for (pos = hlist_entry_safe((head)->first, typeof(*(pos)), member);	\
+	     pos;								\
+	     pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
+
+#undef hlist_for_each_entry_safe
+/**
+ * hlist_for_each_entry_safe - iterate over list of given type safe against removal of list entry
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @n:		another &struct hlist_node to use as temporary storage
+ * @head:	the head for your list.
+ * @member:	the name of the hlist_node within the struct.
+ */
+#define hlist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, head, member) 			\
+	for (pos = hlist_entry_safe((head)->first, typeof(*pos), member);	\
+	     pos && ({ n = pos->member.next; 1; });				\
+	     pos = hlist_entry_safe(n, typeof(*pos), member))
+
+#undef hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
+/**
+ * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu - iterate over rcu list of given type
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @head:	the head for your list.
+ * @member:	the name of the hlist_node within the struct.
+ *
+ * This list-traversal primitive may safely run concurrently with
+ * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as hlist_add_head_rcu()
+ * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+#define hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member)				\
+	for (pos = hlist_entry_safe (rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_first_rcu(head)),\
+			typeof(*(pos)), member);				\
+		pos;								\
+		pos = hlist_entry_safe(rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_next_rcu(	\
+			&(pos)->member)), typeof(*(pos)), member))
+
+#undef sk_for_each
+#define sk_for_each(__sk, list) \
+	hlist_for_each_entry(__sk, list, sk_node)
+
+#define tty_flip_buffer_push(port) tty_flip_buffer_push((port)->tty)
+#define tty_insert_flip_string(port, chars, size) tty_insert_flip_string((port)->tty, chars, size)
+
+/**
+ * backport of:
+ *
+ * commit 496ad9aa8ef448058e36ca7a787c61f2e63f0f54
+ * Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
+ * Date:   Wed Jan 23 17:07:38 2013 -0500
+ *
+ *     new helper: file_inode(file)
+ */
+static inline struct inode *file_inode(struct file *f)
+{
+	return f->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+}
+
+#endif /* (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,9,0)) */
+
+#endif /* LINUX_3_9_COMPAT_H */