[PATCH 0/2] tools/nolibc: fix verrx() and errx()

From: Danish Khateeb

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 08:21:20 EST


verrx() passes its va_list to the variadic warnx() instead of vwarnx(),
so errx() and verrx() print their messages with the wrong arguments,
and can crash when the format has a "%s".

Patch 1 fixes it. Patch 2 adds a nolibc-test case for errx(), which
would have caught it.

The series is independent of the readdir_r()/FD_* series [1] and merges
cleanly with it.

Tested on top of nolibc/for-next 61fb00d6efee, on x86_64 and i386, and
on arm, arm64 and sparc64 under qemu-user:

- nolibc-test, all tests: no failures with the series. The only
difference from before is the new errx test, which passes. It also
passes against glibc (make libc-test).

- Without patch 1, the errx test fails on all five. On x86_64 the child
is killed by SIGSEGV.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924015222.31693-1-danishkhateeb03@xxxxxxxxx/

Danish Khateeb (2):
tools/nolibc: fix verrx() and errx() message formatting
selftests/nolibc: add a test for errx()

tools/include/nolibc/err.h | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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