Hi, Cédric!

On 10/12/2025 12:13, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
A recent change in glibc 2.42.9000 [1] changes the return type of
strstr() and other string functions to be 'const char *' when the
input is a 'const char *'. This breaks the build in :

../tests/vhost-user-bridge.c: In function ‘vubr_parse_host_port’:
../tests/vhost-user-bridge.c:749:15: error: initialization discards ‘const’ 
qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
   749 |     char *p = strchr(buf, ':');
       |               ^~~~~~

Fix this by using the glib g_strsplit() routine instead of strdup().

[1] 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=cd748a63ab1a7ae846175c532a3daab341c62690

Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]>
---
  tests/vhost-user-bridge.c | 10 ++++------
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/vhost-user-bridge.c b/tests/vhost-user-bridge.c
index 
a5c711b1de8e9c164dd1614f4329b8e3c05d0402..ce4c3426d3938a0b54195f3e95bb1f1c3c4ae823
 100644
--- a/tests/vhost-user-bridge.c
+++ b/tests/vhost-user-bridge.c
@@ -746,14 +746,12 @@ vubr_run(VubrDev *dev)
  static int
  vubr_parse_host_port(const char **host, const char **port, const char *buf)
  {
-    char *p = strchr(buf, ':');
-
-    if (!p) {
+    g_auto(GStrv) tokens = g_strsplit(buf, ":", 2);
+    if (!tokens[0] || !tokens[1]) {
          return -1;
      }
-    *p = '\0';
-    *host = strdup(buf);
-    *port = strdup(p + 1);
+    *host = g_steal_pointer(&tokens[0]);
+    *port = g_steal_pointer(&tokens[1]);
      return 0;
  }

Thanks for addressing this before the glibc change is widely propagated
among distros.

Acked-by: Yodel Eldar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Yodel Eldar <[email protected]>

For testing, I built and installed glibc (76 commits ahead of cd748a63a)
in an x86_64 Linux container and built vhost-user-bridge on top of that.
Ran it with:

./build/tests/vhost-user-bridge -H

qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -enable-kvm -m 4G \
    -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=4G,share=on \
    -numa node,memdev=mem0 -mem-prealloc \
    -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/tmp/vubr.sock \
    -netdev type=vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=char0,vhostforce=on \
    -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \
    -drive file=linux.qcow2

and visually inspected the logged traffic.

Thanks,
Yodel

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