Re: [PATCH] selftests: openat2: fix build error on newer glibc

From: shuah
Date: Thu Feb 13 2020 - 15:10:33 EST


On 2/13/20 12:26 AM, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
It appears that newer glibcs check that openat(O_CREAT) was provided a
fourth argument (rather than passing garbage), resulting in the
following build error:

In file included from /usr/include/fcntl.h:301,
from helpers.c:9:
In function 'openat',
inlined from 'touchat' at helpers.c:49:11:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/fcntl2.h:126:4: error: call to
'__openat_missing_mode' declared with attribute error: openat with O_CREAT
or O_TMPFILE in third argument needs 4 arguments
126 | __openat_missing_mode ();
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Reported-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c b/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c
index e9a6557ab16f..5074681ffdc9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int sys_renameat2(int olddirfd, const char *oldpath,
int touchat(int dfd, const char *path)
{
- int fd = openat(dfd, path, O_CREAT);
+ int fd = openat(dfd, path, O_CREAT, 0700);
if (fd >= 0)
close(fd);
return fd;


Thanks for a quick patch. It compiles now.

I will take this through kselftest tree.

thanks,
-- Shuah