From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07885C433F5 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235972AbiARL1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:27:02 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]:47340 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239702AbiARL0n (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:26:43 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1642505202; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=8FLsSzaNb6xBwgmP5aI7qiq8CRn4bfPKFs/xZ3Nci08=; b=UXGXiDMGh5cuFSzPyrNWvpt+pFKeHKzBwdKKSau0dSda0CeNKknFcT3GkGYvxIcPuAgyXp /5S7F0AA7gMxZm/NIYEI1w/mCWBmaYgs58M2W80PZaVwgbjIxQZS3qnpISGVVH2LZE0ES3 X3YyB8Bq65MNqyonoV2zLAQEocJKeV4= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-42-RtW3k5-IMsepvasdIX3Nog-1; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:26:40 -0500 X-MC-Unique: RtW3k5-IMsepvasdIX3Nog-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 746951006AA3; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (unknown [10.39.192.198]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2D6B752DC; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:26:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: Adhemerval Zanella Cc: "xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com" , Theodore Ts'o , "libc-alpha@sourceware.org" , "fstests@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] src/ext4_resize.c: set errno to 0 before the strtoull call References: <1642405014-3287-1-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com> <61E6298D.80006@fujitsu.com> <61E64FED.2010906@fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:26:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Adhemerval Zanella's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:23:25 -0300") Message-ID: <87wnixjndg.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: fstests@vger.kernel.org * Adhemerval Zanella: > > > On 18/01/2022 02:27, xuyang2018.jy--- via Libc-alpha wrote: >> on 2022/1/18 11:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:43:26AM +0000, xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com wrote: >>>>> You're right of course, but out of curiosity, which C library are you >>>>> using? >>>> I use glibc-2.34. >>> >>> Hmm, ok. I'm using glibc 2.31, and in this particular program, errno >>> shouldn't have been set by any prior system call. I'm guessing maybe >>> it was something in crt0 which ended up setting errno? >> It maybe a glibc bug. >> I cc glibc mailing list and see whether they have met this problem. >> >> @Florian >> >> Now, I use glibc-2.34 and run the following program[1] but the errno is >> not 0 in the beginning. So is this a known bug on glibc-2.34(Theodore >> doesn't meet this problem on glicb-2.31)? >> >> [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/tree/src/ext4_resize.c > > The errno should be only set on a failure, no function shall set errno > to 0 (it is a POSIX definition which glibc adheres). The application > need to explicitly set errno to 0 before the function call to check if > an error occurs. While this is true, I think errno should still be 0 at the start of the program. Thanks, Florian