[PATCH v2] KVM: selftests: Guard execinfo.h inclusion for non-glibc builds
From: Hisam Mehboob
Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 11:49:36 EST
The backtrace() function and execinfo.h are GNU extensions available
in glibc but not in non-glibc C libraries such as musl. Building KVM
selftests with musl-gcc fails with:
lib/assert.c:9:10: fatal error: execinfo.h: No such file or directory
Fix this by guarding the inclusion of execinfo.h and the stack dumping
logic under #ifdef __GLIBC__. For non-glibc builds, provide a local
stub for test_dump_stack().
Suggested-by: Aqib Faruqui <aqibaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hisam Mehboob <hisamshar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Replaced the __weak stub approach with a single #ifdef __GLIBC__
and a local stub inside assert.c as suggested by Sean Christopherson.
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
index b49690658c60..8be0d09ecf0f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@
*/
#include "test_util.h"
-#include <execinfo.h>
+
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include "kselftest.h"
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
+#include <execinfo.h>
+
/* Dumps the current stack trace to stderr. */
static void __attribute__((noinline)) test_dump_stack(void);
static void test_dump_stack(void)
@@ -57,6 +60,9 @@ static void test_dump_stack(void)
system(cmd);
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
}
+#else
+static void test_dump_stack(void) {}
+#endif
static pid_t _gettid(void)
{
--
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