Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] libbpf: add XDP binding support

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Sat Jan 20 2018 - 03:21:31 EST


On 01/20/2018 03:27 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 03:00:37AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 01/19/2018 12:43 AM, Eric Leblond wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This patchset rebases the libbpf code on latest bpf-next code and addresses
>>> remarks by Daniel.
>>
>> Ok, I think it's a good start. We should later on clean up the
>> netlink handling code a bit, but that's all internal and can be
>> done in a second step. Applied to bpf-next, thanks Eric.
>
> Sorry, Eric, Daniel.
> I had to revert this patch set. It breaks build on systems
> where headers are not the most recent.
>
> Since libbpf is used by perf it has to be built cleanly on centos7 at least.
>
> The errors I got:
> bpf.c: In function âbpf_set_link_xdp_fdâ:
> bpf.c:456:23: error: âSOL_NETLINKâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> if (setsockopt(sock, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_EXT_ACK,
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> bpf.c:456:23: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> bpf.c:456:36: error: âNETLINK_EXT_ACKâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> if (setsockopt(sock, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_EXT_ACK,
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> nlattr.c: In function ânla_dump_errormsgâ:
> nlattr.c:152:34: error: âNLMSGERR_ATTR_MAXâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> struct nla_policy extack_policy[NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {

Yeah, fully agree, thanks for catching this, Alexei!