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Re: [hurd, commited] hurd: Make getrandom a stub inside the random trans


From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: [hurd, commited] hurd: Make getrandom a stub inside the random translator
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:45:18 +0100

* Samuel Thibault via Libc-alpha:

> Joseph Myers, le ven. 31 déc. 2021 20:24:02 +0000, a ecrit:
>> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> 
>> > +extern char *trivfs_server_name __attribute__((weak));
>> 
>> This looks like it has caused many linknamespace test failures, of the 
>> form:
>> 
>> [initial] __assert_fail -> [libc.a(assert.o)] free -> [libc.a(malloc.o)] 
>> __getrandom -> [libc.a(getrandom.o)] trivfs_server_name
>
> Uh, weak references are red-flagged?

They are.  A symbol collision will break glibc functionality because
the application scribbles over the internal variable.

> Where should I white-flag these?

You need to rename the symbol to __trivfs_server_name.



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