Re: [PATCH 4.19 144/187] selftests/bpf: skip verifier tests for unsupported program types

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 05/23/2019 12:27 PM, Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo) wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 10:48 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> 4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
>> me know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 8184d44c9a577a2f1842ed6cc844bfd4a9981d8e ]
>>
>> Use recently introduced bpf_probe_prog_type() to skip tests in the
>> test_verifier() if bpf_verify_program() fails. The skipped test is
>> indicated in the output.
> 
> Hi, this patch added in 4.19.34 causes test_verifier build failure, as
> bpf_probe_prog_type() is not available:
> 
> gcc -Wall -O2 -I../../../include/uapi -I../../../lib -I../../../lib/bpf
> -I../../../../include/generated -DHAVE_GENHDR
> -I../../../include    test_verifier.c /root/linux-
> 4.19.44/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/libbpf.a -lcap -lelf -lrt -lpthread
> -o /root/linux-4.19.44/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier
> test_verifier.c: In function âdo_test_singleâ:
> test_verifier.c:12775:22: warning: implicit declaration of function
> âbpf_probe_prog_typeâ; did you mean âbpf_program__set_typeâ? [-
> Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   if (fd_prog < 0 && !bpf_probe_prog_type(prog_type, 0)) {
>                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>                       bpf_program__set_type
> /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEtyLhk.o: in function `do_test_single':
> test_verifier.c:(.text+0xa19): undefined reference to
> `bpf_probe_prog_type'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [../lib.mk:152: /root/linux-
> 4.19.44/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier] Error 1

Looks like this kselftest one got auto-selected for stable? It's not
strictly needed, so totally fine to drop.

Thanks,
Daniel