Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: fix const qualifier in fexit_bpf2bpf test

From: Jiayuan Chen

Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 06:20:50 EST



On 4/9/26 5:11 PM, Woojin Ji wrote:
prog_name is an array of const char * strings, so strstr() returns a
pointer into const data.

Store the result in a const char * to avoid discarding the const
qualifier.

With GCC 15 this triggers -Werror=discarded-qualifiers and breaks
the build of tools/testing/selftests/bpf.

Signed-off-by: Woojin Ji <random6.xyz@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
index f29fc789c14b..d8225da4c1af 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static void test_fexit_bpf2bpf_common(const char *obj_file,
struct bpf_link_info link_info;
struct bpf_program *pos;
const char *pos_sec_name;
- char *tgt_name;
+ const char *tgt_name;
__s32 btf_id;
tgt_name = strstr(prog_name[i], "/");

Already exist.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c?id=ca0f39a369c5f927c3d004e63a5a778b08a9df94