[PATCH 1/1] sandbox: compatibility of os_get_filesize()

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Tue Jan 11 01:50:24 CET 2022


U-Boot define loff_t as long long. But the header
/usr/include/linux/types.h may not define it.
This has lead to a build error on Alpine Linux.

So let's use long long instead of loff_t for
the size parameter of function os_get_filesize().

Reported-by: Milan P. Stanić <mps at arvanta.net>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c | 10 ++++++++--
 include/os.h          |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
index 6837bfceaf..40ebe322ae 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
@@ -624,7 +624,13 @@ const char *os_dirent_get_typename(enum os_dirent_t type)
 	return os_dirent_typename[OS_FILET_UNKNOWN];
 }
 
-int os_get_filesize(const char *fname, loff_t *size)
+/*
+ * For compatibility reasons avoid loff_t here.
+ * U-Boot defines loff_t as long long.
+ * But /usr/include/linux/types.h may not define it at all.
+ * Alpine Linux being one example.
+ */
+int os_get_filesize(const char *fname, long long *size)
 {
 	struct stat buf;
 	int ret;
@@ -667,7 +673,7 @@ int os_read_ram_buf(const char *fname)
 {
 	struct sandbox_state *state = state_get_current();
 	int fd, ret;
-	loff_t size;
+	long long size;
 
 	ret = os_get_filesize(fname, &size);
 	if (ret < 0)
diff --git a/include/os.h b/include/os.h
index 4cbcbd93a7..10e198cf50 100644
--- a/include/os.h
+++ b/include/os.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ const char *os_dirent_get_typename(enum os_dirent_t type);
  * @size:	size of file is returned if no error
  * Return:	0 on success or -1 if an error ocurred
  */
-int os_get_filesize(const char *fname, loff_t *size);
+int os_get_filesize(const char *fname, long long *size);
 
 /**
  * os_putc() - write a character to the controlling OS terminal
-- 
2.33.1



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