[PATCH 5.5 205/257] selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 11:36:01 EST


From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 9686813f6e9d5568bc045de0be853411e44958c8 upstream.

We added a usage of try-run to pmu/ebb/Makefile to detect if the
toolchain supported the -no-pie option.

This fails if we build out-of-tree and the source tree is not
writable, as try-run tries to write its temporary files to the current
directory. That leads to the -no-pie option being silently dropped,
which leads to broken executables with some toolchains.

If we remove the redirect to /dev/null in try-run, we see the error:

make[3]: Entering directory '/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file .54.tmp: Read-only file system
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.

And looking with strace we see it's trying to use a file that's in the
source tree:

lstat("/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.54.tmp", 0x7ffffc0f83c8)

We can fix it by setting TMPOUT to point to the $(OUTPUT) directory,
and we can verify with strace it's now trying to write to the output
directory:

lstat("/output/kselftest/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.54.tmp", 0x7fffd1bf6bf8)

And also see that the -no-pie option is now correctly detected.

Fixes: 0695f8bca93e ("selftests/powerpc: Handle Makefile for unrecognized option")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.5+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327095319.2347641-1-mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ noarg:
# The EBB handler is 64-bit code and everything links against it
CFLAGS += -m64

+TMPOUT = $(OUTPUT)/
# Toolchains may build PIE by default which breaks the assembly
no-pie-option := $(call try-run, echo 'int main() { return 0; }' | \
$(CC) -Werror $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(CC_OPTION_CFLAGS) -no-pie -x c - -o "$$TMP", -no-pie)