Re: [PATCH] ubifs-img: Force cross-compile usage

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

07.07.2021 19:46, Anton Mikanovich wrote:
> mkfs.ubifs creates an empty image at armhf target with error:
>
>> Value too large for defined data type
> This error is throwed by readdir(glibc 2.28+) inside 32-bit QEMU on
> 64-bit kernel with ext4 filesystem. It happens because of incorrect
> filesystem metadata storage if _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is not set.
>
> Upstream bugs
> QEMU: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/263
> glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23960
> kernel: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205957
> maillist: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/27/155
>
> It was already fixed in mtd-utils v2.1.3 by enabling LFS
> (commit e91700286ff531f344f4d9a1f1c96c501bfeadad), but until this
> version will be released and backported to Debian we need a hotfix to
> make Isar to use host arch mkfs.ubifs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>
> ---
>   meta/classes/ubifs-img.bbclass | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/ubifs-img.bbclass b/meta/classes/ubifs-img.bbclass
> index e422b46..7d78a79 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/ubifs-img.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/ubifs-img.bbclass
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ UBIFS_IMAGE_FILE ?= "${IMAGE_FULLNAME}.ubifs.img"
>   
>   IMAGER_INSTALL += "mtd-utils"
>   
> +# glibc bug 23960 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23960
> +# should not use QEMU on armhf target with mkfs.ubifs < v2.1.3
> +ISAR_CROSS_COMPILE_armhf = "1"
> +
>   # Generate ubifs filesystem image
>   do_ubifs_image() {
>       rm -f '${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${UBIFS_IMAGE_FILE}'

Applied to next.

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