Re: selftests: bpf: test_libbpf.sh failed at file test_l4lb.o

[Andrii Nakryiko]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:17 AM Dan Rue <dan.rue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:17:04PM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:08 AM Naresh Kamboju
> > <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > selftests: bpf test_libbpf.sh failed running Linux -next kernel
> > > 20190618 and 20190619.
> > >
> > > Here is the log from x86_64,
> > > # selftests bpf test_libbpf.sh
> > > bpf: test_libbpf.sh_ #
> > > # [0] libbpf BTF is required, but is missing or corrupted.
> >
> > You need at least clang-9.0.0 (not yet released) to run some of these
> > tests successfully, as they rely on Clang's support for
> > BTF_KIND_VAR/BTF_KIND_DATASEC.
>
> Can there be a runtime check for BTF that emits a skip instead of a fail
> in such a case?

I'm not sure how to do this simply and minimally intrusively. The best
I can come up with is setting some envvar from Makefile and checking
for that in each inidividual test, which honestly sounds a bit gross.

How hard is it for you guys to upgrade compiler used to run these test?

>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> >
> > > libbpf: BTF_is #
> > > # test_libbpf failed at file test_l4lb.o
> > > failed: at_file #
> > > # selftests test_libbpf [FAILED]
> > > test_libbpf: [FAILED]_ #
> > > [FAIL] 29 selftests bpf test_libbpf.sh
> > > selftests: bpf_test_libbpf.sh [FAIL]
> > >
> > > Full test log,
> > > https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-oe/build/next-20190619/testrun/781777/log
> > >
> > > Test results comparison,
> > > https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-oe/tests/kselftest/bpf_test_libbpf.sh
> > >
> > > Good linux -next tag: next-20190617
> > > Bad linux -next tag: next-20190618
> > > git branch     master
> > > git commit    1c6b40509daf5190b1fd2c758649f7df1da4827b
> > > git repo
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Naresh Kamboju
>
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