On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 09:56:16PM +0800, Henry Wang wrote:
> Below error can be seen when doing Yocto build of the toolstack:
>
> | io.c: In function 'p9_error':
> | io.c:684:5: error: ignoring return value of 'strerror_r' declared
> with attribute 'warn_unused_result' [-Werror=unused-result]
> | 684 | strerror_r(err, ring->buffer, ring->ring_size);
> | | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> Using strerror_r() without special casing different build environments
> is impossible due to the different return types (int vs char *)
> depending on the environment. As p9_error() is not on a performance
> critical path, using strerror() with a mutex ought to be fine. So,
> fix the build by using strerror() to replace strerror_r(). The steps
> would then become: Acquire the mutex first, invoke strerror(), copy
> the string from strerror() to the designated buffer and then drop the
> mutex.
>
> Fixes: f4900d6d69b5 ("9pfsd: allow building with old glibc")
> Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <xin.wa...@amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
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Anthony PERARD
