Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: ignore pointer types check with clang

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Fri Apr 14 2023 - 00:56:47 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:59 AM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Building bpf selftests with clang can trigger errors like the following:
>
> CLNG-BPF [test_maps] bpf_iter_netlink.bpf.o
> progs/bpf_iter_netlink.c:32:4: error: incompatible pointer types assigning to 'struct sock *' from 'struct sock___17 *' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> s = &nlk->sk;
> ^ ~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.

I cannot reproduce this and BPF CI doesn't complain about it either.
What kind of clang do you use?
Some special version and build flags?