Re: perf build failure on Linus's tree

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:37:24 +0900
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 3 May 2012 14:57:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> Linus's tree right now (3.4.rc5.67.gac001.dirty) gives me the following
>>>> build error when I try to build perf:
>>>>     CC util/parse-events-flex.o
>>>> <stdout>: In function ‘yy_get_next_buffer’:
>>>> <stdout>:1510:3: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
>>>> util/parse-events.l: In function ‘parse_events_lex’:
>>>> util/parse-events.l:122:1: error: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
>>>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>>>
>>>> Do you really want to ensure that flex's build warnings fail the build?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>> Can't reproduce it on my Fedora 17 box:
>>
>> Because your glibc headers probably don't have the warn_unused_result attribute
>> in the extern declaration of fwrite() like Greg's do.
>>
> `tools/perf/Makefile' adds -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 on the compiler's
> command line, which in turn adds `__attribute__
> ((__warn_unused_result__))' to fwrite(3)'s prototypes, via `__wur'. I
> double checked by pre-processing `util/parse-events-flex.c' with the
> same arguments used by perf. fwrite(3) ends up being declared as:
>
> extern size_t fwrite (__const void *__restrict __ptr, size_t __size,
>        size_t __n, FILE *__restrict __s) __attribute__
> ((__warn_unused_result__));
>
> So it is definitively enabled, and used, on Fedora.
>
> Above tests were done on Fedora 15/x86_64 and Fedora 16/x86_64, `perf'
> build without any issue there too.
>
it would seem that OpenSuse 12.1 and Fedora ship the same `flex'
package, upstream version 2.5.35. However, Fedora specifically harden
flex(1) wrt. lacks of fwrite(3)'s return value check, see [0] for the
exact patch.

 - Arnaud

[0]: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=flex.git;a=blob;f=flex-2.5.35-hardening.patch;h=7d608ea2371fa3295bdb8eb97c15eeb03029c02b;hb=HEAD

> my 0.2c,
>  - Arnaud
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