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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,stable@vger.kernel.org,nathan@kernel.org,david.laight.linux@gmail.com,rkr0k0r@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] tools-compiler-match-glibc-242-definition-of-__attribute_const__.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:04:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804040459.0059F1F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: tools/compiler: match glibc 2.42 definition of __attribute_const__
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     tools-compiler-match-glibc-242-definition-of-__attribute_const__.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------
From: "Joy H.J. Lee" <rkr0k0r@gmail.com>
Subject: tools/compiler: match glibc 2.42 definition of __attribute_const__
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 05:06:35 +0900

glibc 2.42 added __attribute_const__ to sys/cdefs.h:

    # define __attribute_const__ __attribute__ ((__const__))

GCC 15 warns when a macro is redefined to a different replacement list
(-Wbuiltin-macro-redefined). Since host tool Makefiles (resolve_btfids,
objtool) pass -Werror, this conflict becomes fatal.

The warning is suppressed on standard native builds because GCC treats
/usr/include as a system header path (-isystem), and macro-redefinition
warnings from system headers are silently suppressed by GCC. It fires
when glibc headers are on a regular include path (-I) instead, which
is the case in cross-compilation setups such as NixOS, where the
sysroot's glibc is passed explicitly via -I rather than -isystem.

Per (C11 6.10.3), identical replacement lists are accepted silently.
Match the glibc definition exactly, including the space before "((", so
the redefinition is accepted without warning regardless of whether
glibc headers are treated as system or non-system includes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260701200635.3992767-1-rkr0k0r@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joy H.J. Lee <rkr0k0r@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/include/linux/compiler.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h~tools-compiler-match-glibc-242-definition-of-__attribute_const__
+++ a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 #define __read_mostly
 
 #ifndef __attribute_const__
-# define __attribute_const__
+# define __attribute_const__ __attribute__ ((__const__))
 #endif
 
 #ifndef __maybe_unused
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rkr0k0r@gmail.com are



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