On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 04:28:48PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Commit daef47b89efd0b7 ("selftests: Compile kselftest headers with
> -D_GNU_SOURCE") adds a static_assert() which means that things which
> would be warnings about undeclared functions get escalated into build
> failures. While we do actually want _GNU_SOURCE to be defined for users
> of kselftest_harness we haven't actually done that yet and this is
> causing widespread build breaks which were previously warnings about
> uses of asprintf() without prototypes, including causing other test
> programs in the same directory to fail to build.
>
> Since the build failures that are introduced cause additional issues due
> to make stopping builds early replace the static_assert() with a
> missing without making the error more severe than it already was. This
> will be moot once the issue is fixed properly but reduces the disruption
> while that happens.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
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Kees Cook
