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authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>2019-10-10 20:29:01 -0700
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2019-10-11 23:11:55 +0200
commite78dcbf414545b53218dab0fb5af5d6b61513eaf (patch)
tree8ff553578ad3fd12d931273d5f24b72e2f9a5228 /tools
parentlibbpf: Generate more efficient BPF_CORE_READ code (diff)
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libbpf: Handle invalid typedef emitted by old GCC
Old GCC versions are producing invalid typedef for __gnuc_va_list pointing to void. Special-case this and emit valid: typedef __builtin_va_list __gnuc_va_list; Reported-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191011032901.452042-1-andriin@fb.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
index 87f27e2664c5..139812b46c7b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c
@@ -975,6 +975,17 @@ static void btf_dump_emit_typedef_def(struct btf_dump *d, __u32 id,
{
const char *name = btf_dump_ident_name(d, id);
+ /*
+ * Old GCC versions are emitting invalid typedef for __gnuc_va_list
+ * pointing to VOID. This generates warnings from btf_dump() and
+ * results in uncompilable header file, so we are fixing it up here
+ * with valid typedef into __builtin_va_list.
+ */
+ if (t->type == 0 && strcmp(name, "__gnuc_va_list") == 0) {
+ btf_dump_printf(d, "typedef __builtin_va_list __gnuc_va_list");
+ return;
+ }
+
btf_dump_printf(d, "typedef ");
btf_dump_emit_type_decl(d, t->type, name, lvl);
}