From: Thomas Perale via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/zfs: add patch to fix build with uclibc >= 1.0.57
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327100243.46427-1-thomas.perale@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260316201420.798780-1-ju.o@free.fr>
In reply of:
> uclibc 1.0.57 added a statx() syscall wrapper in upstream commit [1].
>
> zfs fail to build with uclibc 1.0.57 (not yet in Buildroot), because:
> 1. uclibc <fcntl.h> internally includes <sys/stat.h>, and
> 2. a zfs test redefines a statx() wrapper with a slightly different
> prototype.
>
> In that case, zfs fails to compile with error:
>
> tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c:58:1: error: conflicting types for 'statx'; have 'int(int, const char *, int, unsigned int, void *)'
>
> Issue has been reported upstream at [2].
>
> This commit adds a package patch to fix that issue.
>
> [1] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng/commit/d3a819aff25af436e22abd5ba01ff2cfc0631b32
> [2] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18316
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Applied to 2026.02.x & 2025.02.x. Thanks
> ---
> This patch is meant to be applied before updating uclibc:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/aaQ0OC8I4PAx0xZz@waldemar-brodkorb.de/
> ---
> ...ts-cmd-statx.c-avoid-statx-conflicts.patch | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 package/zfs/0001-tests-zfs-tests-cmd-statx.c-avoid-statx-conflicts.patch
>
> diff --git a/package/zfs/0001-tests-zfs-tests-cmd-statx.c-avoid-statx-conflicts.patch b/package/zfs/0001-tests-zfs-tests-cmd-statx.c-avoid-statx-conflicts.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..98f905aa48
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/zfs/0001-tests-zfs-tests-cmd-statx.c-avoid-statx-conflicts.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +From d363aafe0a773cd55890a385694cf05cb6225c5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
> +Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:18:07 +0100
> +Subject: [PATCH] tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c: avoid statx() conflicts
> +
> +With some libc, such as uclibc >= 1.0.57, the libc defines the statx()
> +function, while also internally including <sys/stat.h> (from <fcntl.h>
> +from example), which results to a compilation error due to conflicting
> +types.
> +
> +This commit fixes the issue by only defining the statx() prototype only
> +if the libc was detected not to have a working statx() wrapper, and
> +explicitly include the <sys/stat.h> otherwise.
> +
> +Upstream: Discussed in: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18316#issuecomment-4062904581
> +Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
> +---
> + tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c | 5 +++++
> + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> +
> +diff --git a/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c b/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c
> +index 1acc7e58c..c292fdbdf 100644
> +--- a/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c
> ++++ b/tests/zfs-tests/cmd/statx.c
> +@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
> + * statx() may be available in the kernel, but not in the libc, so we build
> + * our own wrapper if we can't link one.
> + */
> ++#ifdef HAVE_STATX
> ++#include <sys/stat.h>
> ++#endif
> +
> + #ifndef __NR_statx
> + #if defined(__x86_64__)
> +@@ -54,9 +57,11 @@
> + #endif /* __NR_statx */
> +
> +
> ++#ifndef HAVE_STATX
> + int
> + statx(int, const char *, int, unsigned int, void *)
> + __attribute__((weak));
> ++#endif
> +
> + static inline int
> + _statx(int fd, const char *path, int flags, unsigned int mask, void *stx)
> +--
> +2.53.0
> +
> --
> 2.53.0
>
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2026-03-16 20:14 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/zfs: add patch to fix build with uclibc >= 1.0.57 Julien Olivain via buildroot
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