Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:55 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [ Cc += linux-arch & Arnd ]
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> This looks OK to me, but I'm always a bit nervous about changes in uapi.
> I've Cc'ed linux-arch and Arnd who look after the asm-generic headers,
> which this is slightly related to, just in case.
>
> One minor comment below.
>
> Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> > EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> > errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> > include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> > not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> > value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
> >
> > Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
> > first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
> > musl 1.1.24:
> >
> >   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
> >                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
> >                    from libbpf.c:29:
> >   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
> >    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
> >
> >   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
> >                    from libbpf.c:26:
> >   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> >    #define EDEADLOCK       58
> >
> >   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> > Fixes: 95f28190aa01 ("tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf")
> > Fixes: c3617f72036c ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm")
>
> I suspect that's not the right commit to tag. It just moved errno.h from
> arch/powerpc/include/asm to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm. It's content
> was almost identical, and entirely identical as far as EDEADLOCK was
> concerned.
>
> Prior to that the file lived in asm-powerpc/errno.h, eg:
>
> $ git cat-file -p b8b572e1015f^:include/asm-powerpc/errno.h
>
> Before that it was include/asm-ppc64/errno.h, content still the same.
>
> To go back further we'd have to look at the historical git trees, which
> is probably overkill. I'm pretty sure it's always had this problem.
>
> So we should probably drop the Fixes tags and just Cc: stable, that
> means please backport it as far back as possible.

I can see that the two numbers (35 and 58) were consistent across
multiple architectures (i386, m68k, ppc32) up to linux-2.0.1, while
other architectures had two unique numbers (alpha, mips, sparc)
at the time, and sparc had BSD and Solaris compatible numbers
in addition.

In linux-2.0.2, alpha and i386 got changed to use 35 for both,
but the other architectures remained unchanged. All later
architectures followed x86 in using the same number for both.

I foudn a message about tcl breaking at compile time when
it changed:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9607.3/0500.html

The errno man page says they are supposed to be synonyms,
and glibc defines it that way, while musl uses the numbers
from the kernel.

        Arnd