Re: [PATCH] tools lib: Disable redundant-delcs error for strlcpy

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Dec 20 2019 - 07:31:44 EST


Em Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 05:52:36AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov escreveu:
> Arnaldo,
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 05:04:20PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:23:32PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov escreveu:
> > > Arnaldo,
>
> (Btw, you didn't include me into the To: of your reply).
>
> > > Ping. Can you accept or comment on this patch? There is further
> > > explanations of it:
> >
> > Will this work when building with clang
>
> Clang doesn't produce this warning:
>
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wredundant-decls
> "-Wredundant-decls
> This diagnostic flag exists for GCC compatibility, and has no effect
> in Clang."
>
> Thus, this change doesn't affect clang. (When building the kernel objtool
> compiles OK).
>
> But, compilation with clang fails compiling perf with:
>
> CC util/string.o
> ../lib/string.c:99:8: error: attribute declaration must precede definition [-Werror,-Wignored-attributes]
> size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
> ^
> ../../tools/include/linux/compiler.h:66:34: note: expanded from macro '__weak'
> # define __weak __attribute__((weak))
> ^
> /usr/include/bits/string_fortified.h:151:8: note: previous definition is here
> __NTH (strlcpy (char *__restrict __dest, const char *__restrict __src,
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> This warning could be disabled with this:
>
> diff --git tools/lib/string.c tools/lib/string.c
> index f2ae1b87c719..65b569014446 100644
> --- tools/lib/string.c
> +++ tools/lib/string.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
> * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
> * implementation:
> */
> +#pragma GCC diagnostic push
> +#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wignored-attributes"
> size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
> {
> size_t ret = strlen(src);
> @@ -107,6 +109,7 @@ size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
> }
> return ret;
> }
> +#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
>
> /**
> * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @str.
>
> If this is acceptable I will resend v2 with this.

Go ahead, and please let me know if there is any container image for
Altlinux, as I test with clang on all the distros I have container
images for, and this hasn't appeared on my radar, i.e. clang + strlcpy
warnings :-)

- Arnaldo

> Thanks,
>
> >
> > - Arnaldo
> >
> > > 1. It seems that people putting strlcpy() into the tools was already aware of
> > > the problems it causes and tried to solve them. Probably, that's why they put
> > > `__weak` attribute on it (so it would be linkable in the presence of another
> > > strlcpy). Then `#ifndef __UCLIBC__`ed and later `#if defined(__GLIBC__) &&
> > > !defined(__UCLIBC__)` its declaration. But, solution was incomplete and could
> > > be improved to make kernel buildable on more systems (where libc contains
> > > strlcpy).
> > >
> > > There is not need to make `redundant redeclaration` warning an error in
> > > this case.
> > >
> > > 2. `#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored` trick is already used multiple times
> > > in the kernel:
> > >
> > > $ git grep '#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored'
> > > arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-variable"
> > > tools/build/feature/test-gtk2-infobar.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-prototypes"
> > > tools/build/feature/test-gtk2.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-prototypes"
> > > tools/include/linux/string.h:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wredundant-decls"
> > > tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wformat-nonliteral"
> > > tools/perf/ui/gtk/gtk.h:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-prototypes"
> > > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-result"
> > > tools/usb/ffs-test.c:#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
> > >
> > > So the solution does not seem alien in the kernel and should be acceptable.
> > >
> > > (I also send this to another of your emails in case I used wrong one before.)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:46:07AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > > > Disable `redundant-decls' error for strlcpy declaration and solve build
> > > > error allowing users to compile vanilla kernels.
> > > >
> > > > When glibc have strlcpy (such as in ALT linux since 2004) objtool and
> > > > perf build fails with something like:
> > > >
> > > > In file included from exec-cmd.c:3:
> > > > tools/include/linux/string.h:20:15: error: redundant redeclaration of âstrlcpyâ [-Werror=redundant-decls]
> > > > 20 | extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
> > > > | ^~~~~~~
> > > >
> > > > It's very hard to produce a perfect fix for that since it is a header
> > > > file indirectly pulled from many sources from different Makefile builds.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: ce99091 ("perf tools: Move strlcpy() from perf to tools/lib/string.c")
> > > > Fixes: 0215d59 ("tools lib: Reinstate strlcpy() header guard with __UCLIBC__")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > ---
> > > > tools/include/linux/string.h | 3 +++
> > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/tools/include/linux/string.h b/tools/include/linux/string.h
> > > > index 980cb9266718..99ede7f5dfb8 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/include/linux/string.h
> > > > +++ b/tools/include/linux/string.h
> > > > @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
> > > > * However uClibc headers also define __GLIBC__ hence the hack below
> > > > */
> > > > #if defined(__GLIBC__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
> > > > +#pragma GCC diagnostic push
> > > > +#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wredundant-decls"
> > > > extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
> > > > +#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > > > char *str_error_r(int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen);
> >

--

- Arnaldo