bpftool-native: Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers errors for glibc 2.42+

Backport a patch from kernel to fix the following build errors.

bbpf.c: In function ‘kallsyms_cb’:
| libbpf.c:8192:13: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
|  8192 |         res = strstr(sym_name, ".llvm.");
|       |             ^
| libbpf.c: In function ‘avail_kallsyms_cb’:
| libbpf.c:11497:31: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
| 11497 |                 if (!(sym_sfx = strstr(sym_name, ".llvm.")))
|       |                               ^
| libbpf.c: In function ‘resolve_full_path’:
| libbpf.c:12085:35: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
| 12085 |                         next_path = strchr(s, ':');
|       |

Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
This commit is contained in:
He Zhe
2026-05-13 10:33:18 +08:00
committed by Khem Raj
parent a3b407c982
commit 0a3798eaed
2 changed files with 73 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ DEPENDS = "binutils-native elfutils-native"
inherit native bash-completion inherit native bash-completion
SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-${PV}.tar.xz" SRC_URI = "\
${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-${PV}.tar.xz \
file://0001-libbpf-Fix-Wdiscarded-qualifiers-under-C23.patch \
"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1a4be2fe6b5246aa4ac8987a8a4af34c42a8dd7d08b46ab48516bcc1befbcd83" SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1a4be2fe6b5246aa4ac8987a8a4af34c42a8dd7d08b46ab48516bcc1befbcd83"
S = "${UNPACKDIR}/linux-${PV}" S = "${UNPACKDIR}/linux-${PV}"
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
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From: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 14:28:25 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] libbpf: Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers under C23
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commit d70f79fef65810faf64dbae1f3a1b5623cdb2345 upstream.
glibc ≥ 2.42 (GCC 15) defaults to -std=gnu23, which promotes
-Wdiscarded-qualifiers to an error.
In C23, strstr() and strchr() return "const char *".
Change variable types to const char * where the pointers are never
modified (res, sym_sfx, next_path).
Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251206092825.1471385-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
[ shung-hsi.yu: needed to fix kernel build failure due to libbpf since glibc
2.43+ (which adds 'const' qualifier to strstr) ]
Signed-off-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-6.18.y&id=ab21cf885fb2af179c44d8beeabd716133b9385d]
Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
---
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index dd3b2f57082d..9c98c6adb6d0 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -8245,7 +8245,7 @@ static int kallsyms_cb(unsigned long long sym_addr, char sym_type,
struct bpf_object *obj = ctx;
const struct btf_type *t;
struct extern_desc *ext;
- char *res;
+ const char *res;
res = strstr(sym_name, ".llvm.");
if (sym_type == 'd' && res)
@@ -11574,7 +11574,8 @@ static int avail_kallsyms_cb(unsigned long long sym_addr, char sym_type,
*
* [0] fb6a421fb615 ("kallsyms: Match symbols exactly with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG")
*/
- char sym_trim[256], *psym_trim = sym_trim, *sym_sfx;
+ char sym_trim[256], *psym_trim = sym_trim;
+ const char *sym_sfx;
if (!(sym_sfx = strstr(sym_name, ".llvm.")))
return 0;
@@ -12159,7 +12160,7 @@ static int resolve_full_path(const char *file, char *result, size_t result_sz)
if (!search_paths[i])
continue;
for (s = search_paths[i]; s != NULL; s = strchr(s, ':')) {
- char *next_path;
+ const char *next_path;
int seg_len;
if (s[0] == ':')
--
2.34.1