Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add alignment flag for test_verifier 190 testcase

[Emil Tsalapatis]

On Tue Mar 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM EDT, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> There exists failure when executing the testcase "./test_verifier 190" if
> CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is not set on LoongArch.
>
>   #190/p calls: two calls that return map_value with incorrect bool check FAIL
>   ...
>   misaligned access off (0x0; 0xffffffffffffffff)+0 size 8
>   ...
>   Summary: 0 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 1 FAILED
>
> It means that the program has unaligned accesses, but the kernel sets
> CONFIG_ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN by default to enable -mstrict-align to prevent
> unaligned accesses, so add a flag F_NEEDS_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> into the testcase to avoid the failure.
>
> This is somehow similar with the commit ce1f289f541e ("selftests/bpf:
> Add F_NEEDS_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to some tests").
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/calls.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/calls.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/calls.c
> index 86887130a0ef..29e57f0e56c3 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/calls.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/calls.c
> @@ -1521,6 +1521,7 @@
>  	.errstr = "R0 invalid mem access 'scalar'",
>  	.result_unpriv = REJECT,
>  	.errstr_unpriv = "invalid read from stack R7 off=-16 size=8",
> +	.flags = F_NEEDS_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS,
>  },
>  {
>  	"calls: two calls that receive map_value via arg=ptr_stack_of_caller. test1",