From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nfsd: Avoid strlen conflict in nfsd4_encode_components_esc()
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:56:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d9808694e01a28bf4b05ad6b7e068db36775ee8.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250928-nfsd-fix-trace-printk-strlen-error-v2-1-108def6ff41c@kernel.org>
On Sun, 2025-09-28 at 15:14 -0400, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> There is an error building nfs4xdr.c with CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG_TRACE=y
> and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=n due to the local variable strlen conflicting
> with the function strlen():
>
> In file included from include/linux/cpumask.h:11,
> from arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:21,
> from arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:102,
> from include/linux/irqflags.h:18,
> from include/linux/spinlock.h:59,
> from include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
> from include/linux/gfp.h:7,
> from include/linux/slab.h:16,
> from fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c:37:
> fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c: In function 'nfsd4_encode_components_esc':
> include/linux/kernel.h:321:46: error: called object 'strlen' is not a function or function pointer
> 321 | __trace_puts(_THIS_IP_, str, strlen(str)); \
> | ^~~~~~
> include/linux/kernel.h:265:17: note: in expansion of macro 'trace_puts'
> 265 | trace_puts(fmt); \
> | ^~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h:34:41: note: in expansion of macro 'trace_printk'
> 34 | # define __sunrpc_printk(fmt, ...) trace_printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h:42:17: note: in expansion of macro '__sunrpc_printk'
> 42 | __sunrpc_printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h:25:9: note: in expansion of macro 'dfprintk'
> 25 | dfprintk(FACILITY, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~~~
> fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c:2646:9: note: in expansion of macro 'dprintk'
> 2646 | dprintk("nfsd4_encode_components(%s)\n", components);
> | ^~~~~~~
> fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c:2643:13: note: declared here
> 2643 | int strlen, count=0;
> | ^~~~~~
>
> This dprintk() instance is not particularly useful, so just remove it
> altogether.
>
> At the same time, rename the strlen local variable to avoid any
> potential conflicts with strlen().
>
> Fixes: ec7d8e68ef0e ("sunrpc: add a Kconfig option to redirect dfprintk() output to trace buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove dprintk() to remove usage of strlen()
> - Rename local strlen variable to avoid potential conflict in the future
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20250925-nfsd-fix-trace-printk-strlen-error-v1-1-1360530e4c6b@kernel.org
> ---
> fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 10 ++++------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> index ea91bad4eee2..9fe8a413f688 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> @@ -2640,11 +2640,9 @@ static __be32 nfsd4_encode_components_esc(struct xdr_stream *xdr, char sep,
> __be32 *p;
> __be32 pathlen;
> int pathlen_offset;
> - int strlen, count=0;
> + int str_len, count=0;
> char *str, *end, *next;
>
> - dprintk("nfsd4_encode_components(%s)\n", components);
> -
> pathlen_offset = xdr->buf->len;
> p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4);
> if (!p)
> @@ -2670,9 +2668,9 @@ static __be32 nfsd4_encode_components_esc(struct xdr_stream *xdr, char sep,
> for (; *end && (*end != sep); end++)
> /* find sep or end of string */;
>
> - strlen = end - str;
> - if (strlen) {
> - if (xdr_stream_encode_opaque(xdr, str, strlen) < 0)
> + str_len = end - str;
> + if (str_len) {
> + if (xdr_stream_encode_opaque(xdr, str, str_len) < 0)
> return nfserr_resource;
> count++;
> } else
>
> ---
> base-commit: 3fadfaec904dffab02ebf63dd9c2ae8fa15c6d32
> change-id: 20250925-nfsd-fix-trace-printk-strlen-error-2a24413eb186
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-28 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-28 19:14 [PATCH v2] nfsd: Avoid strlen conflict in nfsd4_encode_components_esc() Nathan Chancellor
2025-09-28 19:56 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2025-09-28 20:13 ` Chuck Lever
2025-09-28 23:29 ` NeilBrown
2025-09-29 13:05 ` Chuck Lever
2025-09-29 18:11 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-09-30 5:32 ` NeilBrown
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