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Package: linux-libc-dev
Version: 5.17.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
I was cleaning up the example programs in the man-pages by using
iwyu(1), when I found that <linux/sysctl.h> is using 'size_t'
without including any definition for it.
See the following example program:
$ cat tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int _sysctl(struct __sysctl_args *args );
#define OSNAMESZ 100
int
main(void)
{
struct __sysctl_args args;
char osname[OSNAMESZ];
size_t osnamelth;
int name[] = { CTL_KERN, KERN_OSTYPE };
memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
args.name = name;
args.nlen = sizeof(name)/sizeof(name[0]);
args.oldval = osname;
args.oldlenp = &osnamelth;
osnamelth = sizeof(osname);
if (syscall(SYS__sysctl, &args) == -1) {
perror("_sysctl");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("This machine is running %*s\n", (int) osnamelth, osname);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
for which I get the following errors:
$ cc -c -std=gnu17 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-error=unused-parameter \
-Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-error=format \
-o tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.o \
tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c;
In file included from tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c:3:
/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:39:9: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
39 | size_t *oldlenp;
| ^~~~~~
/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:41:9: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
41 | size_t newlen;
| ^~~~~~
tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c: In function 'main':
tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c:26:18: error: assignment to 'int *'
from incompatible pointer type 'size_t *' {aka 'long unsigned int *'}
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
26 | args.oldlenp = &osnamelth;
| ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
It seems that it's supposed to know some types, but for some reason
'size_t' is not defined by the included headers:
$ grep include </usr/include/linux/sysctl.h
#include <linux/const.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
Cheers,
Alex
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On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:23:05AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Package: linux-libc-dev
> Version: 5.17.3-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
>
> I was cleaning up the example programs in the man-pages by using
> iwyu(1), when I found that <linux/sysctl.h> is using 'size_t'
> without including any definition for it.
>
> See the following example program:
>
> $ cat tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <linux/sysctl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <sys/syscall.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int _sysctl(struct __sysctl_args *args );
>
> #define OSNAMESZ 100
>
> int
> main(void)
> {
> struct __sysctl_args args;
> char osname[OSNAMESZ];
> size_t osnamelth;
> int name[] = { CTL_KERN, KERN_OSTYPE };
>
> memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
> args.name = name;
> args.nlen = sizeof(name)/sizeof(name[0]);
> args.oldval = osname;
> args.oldlenp = &osnamelth;
>
> osnamelth = sizeof(osname);
>
> if (syscall(SYS__sysctl, &args) == -1) {
> perror("_sysctl");
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> }
> printf("This machine is running %*s\n", (int) osnamelth, osname);
> exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> }
>
> for which I get the following errors:
>
> $ cc -c -std=gnu17 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-error=unused-parameter \
> -Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-error=format \
> -o tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.o \
> tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c;
> In file included from tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c:3:
> /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:39:9: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
> 39 | size_t *oldlenp;
> | ^~~~~~
> /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:41:9: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
> 41 | size_t newlen;
> | ^~~~~~
> tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c: In function 'main':
> tmp/src/man2/sysctl.2.d/sysctl.c:26:18: error: assignment to 'int *'
> from incompatible pointer type 'size_t *' {aka 'long unsigned int *'}
> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> 26 | args.oldlenp = &osnamelth;
> | ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
>
> It seems that it's supposed to know some types, but for some reason
> 'size_t' is not defined by the included headers:
>
> $ grep include </usr/include/linux/sysctl.h
> #include <linux/const.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
If I understand the report
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
upstream correctly there is not really much change that it will be
changed upstream. I'm closing this old bug as I do not see that we
will do something different from upstream.
Regards,
Salvatore
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