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From: Nicholas Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: fix clang+glibc snprintf substitution error
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:35:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9fd763b-7057-c563-5908-2b4e9ca7af60@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YqmH3LgnZGUSahNa@salvia>

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 06:59:41PM -0400, Nicholas Vinson wrote:
>> When building with clang and glibc and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is passed to
>> clang, the snprintf member of the expr_ops and obj_ops structures will
>> be incorrectly replaced with __builtin_snprintf_chk() which results in
>> "error: no member named '__builtin___snprintf_chk'" errors at build
>> time.
> 
> Please, report this to upstream compiler devel list too.

It's been reported upstream a few times already. Relevant links below.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/7591
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/12053
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/17831

> 
>> This patch changes the member name from 'snprintf' to 'nftnl_snprintf'
>> to prevent the replacement.
>>
>> This bug can be emulated using GCC by undefining the __va_arg_pack macro
>> before stdio.h is included.
>>
>> This patch is based on the notes provided in
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/807766.
> 
> Please, rename it to .output instead, I'd suggest.

Renamed from nftnl_snprintf to .output.

Thanks,
Nicholas Vinson

      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-15 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-14 22:59 [PATCH] build: fix clang+glibc snprintf substitution error Nicholas Vinson
2022-06-15  7:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-06-15 11:35   ` Nicholas Vinson [this message]

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