Re: [PATCH v2] fix compile errors due to unsync linux/in6.h and netinet/in.h

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Thu Apr 18 2019 - 16:41:22 EST




On 4/18/19 11:05 AM, Wang YanQing wrote:
> I meet below compile errors:
> "
> In file included from test_tcpnotify_kern.c:12:
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:101:5: error: expected identifier
> IPPROTO_HOPOPTS = 0, /* IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options. */
> ^
> /usr/include/linux/in6.h:131:26: note: expanded from macro 'IPPROTO_HOPOPTS'
> ^
> In file included from test_tcpnotify_kern.c:12:
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:103:5: error: expected identifier
> IPPROTO_ROUTING = 43, /* IPv6 routing header. */
> ^
> /usr/include/linux/in6.h:132:26: note: expanded from macro 'IPPROTO_ROUTING'
> ^
> In file included from test_tcpnotify_kern.c:12:
> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:105:5: error: expected identifier
> IPPROTO_FRAGMENT = 44, /* IPv6 fragmentation header. */
> ^
> /usr/include/linux/in6.h:133:26: note: expanded from macro 'IPPROTO_FRAGMENT'
> "
> The same compile errors are reported for test_tcpbpf_kern.c too.
>
> My environment:
> lsb_release -a:
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
> Release: 16.04
> Codename: xenial
>
> dpkg -l | grep libc-dev:
> ii libc-dev-bin 2.23-0ubuntu11 amd64 GNU C Library: Development binaries
> ii linux-libc-dev:amd64 4.4.0-145.171 amd64 Linux Kernel Headers for development.
>
> The reason is linux/in6.h and netinet/in.h aren't synchronous about how to
> handle the same definitions, IPPROTO_HOPOPTS, etc.
>
> This patch fixes the compile errors by moving <netinet/in.h> to before the
> <linux/*.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested and the change makes sense. By changing the include order, now we
have linux checks the existence of macro _NETINET_IN_H instead of
certain versions of glibc checks _UAPI_LINUX_IN6_H which does not exist
for all recent kernels (at least 4.4 and onwards).

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>


> ---
> Changes
> v1-v2:
> 1:Rewrite the changelog.
>
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpbpf_kern.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpnotify_kern.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpbpf_kern.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpbpf_kern.c
> index 74f73b3..c7c3240 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpbpf_kern.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpbpf_kern.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> #include <stddef.h>
> #include <string.h>
> +#include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <linux/bpf.h>
> #include <linux/if_ether.h>
> #include <linux/if_packet.h>
> @@ -9,7 +10,6 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/socket.h>
> #include <linux/tcp.h>
> -#include <netinet/in.h>
> #include "bpf_helpers.h"
> #include "bpf_endian.h"
> #include "test_tcpbpf.h"
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpnotify_kern.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpnotify_kern.c
> index edbca20..ec6db6e 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpnotify_kern.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tcpnotify_kern.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> #include <stddef.h>
> #include <string.h>
> +#include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <linux/bpf.h>
> #include <linux/if_ether.h>
> #include <linux/if_packet.h>
> @@ -9,7 +10,6 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/socket.h>
> #include <linux/tcp.h>
> -#include <netinet/in.h>
> #include "bpf_helpers.h"
> #include "bpf_endian.h"
> #include "test_tcpnotify.h"
>