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* [LTP] reason of pwritev01_64 failure on 32-bit arm
@ 2016-09-02 15:58 Nikita Yushchenko
  2016-09-05 10:54 ` Jan Stancek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nikita Yushchenko @ 2016-09-02 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ltp

Hi,

I've reproduced and analyzed failure of pwritev01_64 described at [1]

[1] http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2016-March/001201.html


pwritev01_64 fail is an LTP issue

pwrite01 and pwrite01_64 are built from the same source, pwrite01.c
64-bit version is built with additional define, -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64,
which causes 'off_t' type defined by glibc to become 64-bit.

Problem is that both pwrite01.o and pwrite01_64.o link against the same
utility library, libltp
From this library, a routine called safe_pread() is used.
One of arguments of this routine has type off_t.
This means that ABI for this routine is different when built with
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and without it.
Library is built without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, thus on 32-bit platform
safe_pread() inside library expects ABI with 32-bit 'off_t'. And
pwrite01_64.o, built with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, uses different ABI.

If a copy of safe_pread() is injected inside pwrite01.c (and compile
issue is resolved), test passes.

In general, it is not safe to link together object files built with and
without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, since that code is not always
binary-compatible.


On 64-bit platform, sizeof(off_t) is 8 both with and without
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, this issue does not show.

WBR,
Nikita Yushchenko

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2016-09-02 15:58 [LTP] reason of pwritev01_64 failure on 32-bit arm Nikita Yushchenko
2016-09-05 10:54 ` Jan Stancek
2016-09-27 11:58   ` [LTP] [PATCH] safe_macros: make safe_pread() and safe_pwrite() inline Nikita Yushchenko
2016-09-27 12:56     ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-11-26  8:30       ` Nikita Yushchenko
2016-11-28 15:45         ` Cyril Hrubis

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