Re: [PATCH 01/15] crypto - Avoid free() namespace collision
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 02:06:31 EST
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:30:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc-10 complains about using the name of a standard library
> function in the kernel, as we are not building with -ffreestanding:
>
> crypto/xts.c:325:13: error: conflicting types for built-in function 'free'; expected 'void(void *)' [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
> 325 | static void free(struct skcipher_instance *inst)
> | ^~~~
> crypto/lrw.c:290:13: error: conflicting types for built-in function 'free'; expected 'void(void *)' [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
> 290 | static void free(struct skcipher_instance *inst)
> | ^~~~
> crypto/lrw.c:27:1: note: 'free' is declared in header '<stdlib.h>'
>
> The xts and lrw cipher implementations run into this because they do
> not use the conventional namespaced function names.
>
> It might be better to rename all local functions in those files to
> help with things like 'ctags' and 'grep', but just renaming these two
> avoids the build issue. I picked the more verbose crypto_xts_free()
> and crypto_lrw_free() names for consistency with several other drivers
> that do use namespaced function names.
>
> Fixes: f1c131b45410 ("crypto: xts - Convert to skcipher")
> Fixes: 700cb3f5fe75 ("crypto: lrw - Convert to skcipher")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> crypto/lrw.c | 6 +++---
> crypto/xts.c | 6 +++---
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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