package/pahole: fix build on modern toolchains

When building pahole using a modern GCC (e.g. when building
host-pahole), discarded-qualifiers and unused-but-set-variable warnings
are produced. In builds that don't set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, -Werror
gets set and causes a build failure.

Fix this by backporting an unreleased upstream patch (for
discarded-qualifiers) and adding another pending one for
unused-but-set-variable (and, arguably, a correctness issue).

Fixes: https://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/ba7/ba79fb9d08b2c6ec573b79fdbb6b4880bf603a57

Signed-off-by: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
This commit is contained in:
Florian Larysch
2026-07-14 16:46:34 +02:00
committed by Julien Olivain
parent 6688a33296
commit 8419f0f0c7
2 changed files with 188 additions and 0 deletions

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From 5f5809cd50cc4d583a2fe3f4d556cb120760e229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Hourtoulle <damien.hourtoulle@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:09:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] pahole: Fix discarded-qualifiers for strchr/strstr.
Glibc 2.43 added C23 const-preserving overloads :
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.43.
For the function prototype__new, fix local variable declaration to use
the correct const char* type instead of char*, removing the need to
discard the const qualifier.
Also fix a pre-existing bug in type__find_type_enum: when iterating
over a '+'-concatenated list of enum names, after advancing to the next
segment the new separator was not nullified, causing "second+third" to
be passed to cu__find_enumeration_by_name instead of "second". Add a
null check before writing to sep_mutable to avoid a null dereference
when no further '+' is present.
Signed-off-by: Damien Hourtoulle <damien.hourtoulle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dwarves/20260311140938.81459-2-d.hourtoulle@geoide.fr/
Upstream: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/commit/?id=ba31cfa08ffcfe6ff5757f325de5b03ca157cb78
Signed-off-by: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
---
btf_encoder.c | 2 +-
pahole.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
index 03bc3c7..4a585f5 100644
--- a/btf_encoder.c
+++ b/btf_encoder.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ static bool str_contains_non_fn_suffix(const char *str) {
".cold",
".part"
};
- char *suffix = strchr(str, '.');
+ const char *suffix = strchr(str, '.');
int i;
if (!suffix)
diff --git a/pahole.c b/pahole.c
index ef01e58..8c827fc 100644
--- a/pahole.c
+++ b/pahole.c
@@ -2482,7 +2482,7 @@ static int64_t type_instance__int_value(struct type_instance *instance, const ch
int byte_offset = 0;
if (!member) {
- char *sep = strchr(member_name_orig, '.');
+ const char *sep = strchr(member_name_orig, '.');
if (!sep)
return -1;
@@ -2495,8 +2495,8 @@ static int64_t type_instance__int_value(struct type_instance *instance, const ch
char *member_name = member_name_alloc;
struct type *type = instance->type;
- sep = member_name_alloc + (sep - member_name_orig);
- *sep = 0;
+ char *sep_mutable = member_name_alloc + (sep - member_name_orig); // sep mutable for the copy
+ *sep_mutable = 0;
while (1) {
member = type__find_member_by_name(type, member_name);
@@ -2509,9 +2509,9 @@ out_free_member_name:
type = tag__type(cu__type(cu, member->tag.type));
if (type == NULL)
goto out_free_member_name;
- member_name = sep + 1;
- sep = strchr(member_name, '.');
- if (!sep)
+ member_name = sep_mutable + 1;
+ sep_mutable = strchr(member_name, '.');
+ if (!sep_mutable)
break;
}
@@ -2949,7 +2949,7 @@ static struct prototype *prototype__new(const char *expression)
strcpy(prototype->name, expression);
- const char *name = prototype->name;
+ char *name = prototype->name;
prototype->nr_args = 0;
@@ -2963,10 +2963,9 @@ static struct prototype *prototype__new(const char *expression)
if (args_close == NULL)
goto out_no_closing_parens;
+ *args_open++ = *args_close = '\0';
char *args = args_open;
- *args++ = *args_close = '\0';
-
while (isspace(*args))
++args;
@@ -3113,7 +3112,7 @@ static int type__find_type_enum(struct type *type, struct cu *cu, const char *ty
return type__add_type_enum(type, te, cu);
// Now look at a 'virtual enum', i.e. the concatenation of multiple enums
- char *sep = strchr(type_enum, '+');
+ const char *sep = strchr(type_enum, '+');
if (!sep)
return -1;
@@ -3125,13 +3124,13 @@ static int type__find_type_enum(struct type *type, struct cu *cu, const char *ty
int ret = -1;
- sep = type_enums + (sep - type_enum);
+ char *sep_mutable = type_enums + (sep - type_enum);
+ char *cur = type_enums;
- type_enum = type_enums;
- *sep = '\0';
+ *sep_mutable = '\0';
while (1) {
- te = cu__find_enumeration_by_name(cu, type_enum, NULL);
+ te = cu__find_enumeration_by_name(cu, cur, NULL);
if (!te)
goto out;
@@ -3140,10 +3139,12 @@ static int type__find_type_enum(struct type *type, struct cu *cu, const char *ty
if (ret)
goto out;
- if (sep == NULL)
+ if (sep_mutable == NULL)
break;
- type_enum = sep + 1;
- sep = strchr(type_enum, '+');
+ cur = sep_mutable + 1;
+ sep_mutable = strchr(cur, '+');
+ if (sep_mutable)
+ *sep_mutable = '\0';
}
ret = 0;
--
2.55.0

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From f282f4e995becc55a8fa380781dc36e0ff0796d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:07:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] pahole: fix BTF function parameter type match check
The BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO arm in types__match() first checks whether two
function types identified by t1/t2 have matching return types and then
attempts to iterate over the function parameters (p1/p2) to check them
for compatibility too.
However, the loop just repeats the check on t1/t2 instead of p1/p2, so
we just keep re-checking return type compatibility, ignoring possible
mismatches of the actual parameter types.
Fix this by actually comparing p1 and p2. This also resolves a
unused-but-set-variable build-time warning.
Upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/dwarves/20260714140858.17507-1-fl@n621.de/
Signed-off-by: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
---
btf_encoder.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
index 4a585f5..4f9790e 100644
--- a/btf_encoder.c
+++ b/btf_encoder.c
@@ -1109,8 +1109,8 @@ static bool types__match(struct btf_encoder *encoder,
btf2, t2->type))
return false;
for (i = 0; i < vlen; i++, p1++, p2++) {
- if (!types__match(encoder, btf1, t1->type,
- btf2, t2->type))
+ if (!types__match(encoder, btf1, p1->type,
+ btf2, p2->type))
return false;
}
return true;
--
2.55.0