[PATCH] add attribute nonstring

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/15/2017 12:22 AM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 19:29 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>> So the only thing that's missing is the __set_errno (ENODEV); call, I
>> think.  (It's what the ioctl should fail with for an unknown interface
>> name.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
> 
> OK, here is a new version of the patch that sets errno to ENODEV. Â I
> tested it (Thanks to Joseph for fixing the tests that would not compile
> due to the new GCC warning) and got three failures that I think are all
> unrelated to this change:
> 
> FAIL: crypt/badsalttest
> FAIL: nptl/tst-thread_local1
> FAIL: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi

Can you provide more details (such as .out file contents)?  Even if 
these failures are unrelated, they might point to something we need to fix.

> tst-thread_local1 is a failure I have seen before, tst-nss-files-hosts-
> multi is a new test, and I am not sure what is happening with
> badsalttest but it does not seem to be related to this change. Â I also
> have the not-checked-in __NONSTRING changes in utmp.h in my tree in
> order to get this to build.
> 
> OK to checkin?

Patch looks good to me.  Please add [BZ #22442] to both the ChangeLog 
entry and the commit message because it is a user-visible bug.

Thanks,
Florian