netdev - [PATCH v2] perf build: Build error in libbpf with EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wp,-D_FORTIFY

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:21:26 +0200
From:   Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net, ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, wangnan0@...wei.com,
        Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] perf build: Build error in libbpf with EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"

commit a5b8bd47dcc57 ("bpf tools: Collect eBPF programs from their own sections")

causes a compiler error when building the perf tool in the linux-next tree.
I compile it using a FEDORA 28 installation, my gcc compiler version:
gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180324 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.20)

The file that causes the error is tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c

Here is the error message:

[root@...lp27] # make V=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"
[...]
make -f /home6/tmricht/linux-next/tools/build/Makefile.build
	dir=./util/scripting-engines obj=libperf
libbpf.c: In function ‘bpf_object__elf_collect’:
libbpf.c:811:15: error: ignoring return value of ‘strerror_r’,
		declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
     strerror_r(-err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
               ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
mv: cannot stat './.libbpf.o.tmp': No such file or directory
/home6/tmricht/linux-next/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: recipe for target 'libbpf.o' failed

Since this is the only occurance of strerror_r() replace it
by strerror(). The additional functionality of strerror_r() to
copy the error message into the supplied buffer is not needed.
This is also consistant with all the other pr_warning() statements
in this file which all use strerror().

Also fixes a possible initialization issue.

Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 955f8eafbf41..f9eb68ff2f4f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -806,11 +806,8 @@ static int bpf_object__elf_collect(struct bpf_object *obj)
 			err = bpf_object__add_program(obj, data->d_buf,
 						      data->d_size, name, idx);
 			if (err) {
-				char errmsg[STRERR_BUFSIZE];
-
-				strerror_r(-err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
 				pr_warning("failed to alloc program %s (%s): %s",
-					   name, obj->path, errmsg);
+					   name, obj->path, strerror(-err));
 			}
 		} else if (sh.sh_type == SHT_REL) {
 			void *reloc = obj->efile.reloc;
@@ -2334,7 +2331,7 @@ bpf_perf_event_read_simple(void *mem, unsigned long size,
 	__u64 data_tail = header->data_tail;
 	__u64 data_head = header->data_head;
 	void *base, *begin, *end;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	asm volatile("" ::: "memory"); /* in real code it should be smp_rmb() */
 	if (data_head == data_tail)
-- 
2.16.4