[PATCH bpf v3 01/15] selftests/bpf: Pass through build flags to bpftool and resolve_btfids

From: Ihor Solodrai

Date: Fri Feb 20 2026 - 17:26:45 EST


EXTRA_* and SAN_* build flags were not correctly propagated to bpftool
and resolve_btids when building selftests/bpf. This led to various
build errors on attempt to build with SAN_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address",
for example.

Fix the makefiles to address this:
- Pass SAN_CFLAGS/SAN_LDFLAGS to bpftool and resolve_btfids build
- Propagate EXTRA_LDFLAGS to resolve_btfids link command
- Use pkg-config to detect zlib and zstd for resolve_btfids, similar
libelf handling

Also check for ASAN flag in selftests/bpf/Makefile for convenience.

Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile | 7 +++++--
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 13 +++++++++----
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
index 1733a6e93a07..ef083602b73a 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ $(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(LIBBPF_OU
LIBELF_FLAGS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) libelf --cflags 2>/dev/null)
LIBELF_LIBS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) libelf --libs 2>/dev/null || echo -lelf)

+ZLIB_LIBS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) zlib --libs 2>/dev/null || echo -lz)
+ZSTD_LIBS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) libzstd --libs 2>/dev/null || echo -lzstd)
+
HOSTCFLAGS_resolve_btfids += -g \
-I$(srctree)/tools/include \
-I$(srctree)/tools/include/uapi \
@@ -73,7 +76,7 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_resolve_btfids += -g \
$(LIBELF_FLAGS) \
-Wall -Werror

-LIBS = $(LIBELF_LIBS) -lz
+LIBS = $(LIBELF_LIBS) $(ZLIB_LIBS) $(ZSTD_LIBS)

export srctree OUTPUT HOSTCFLAGS_resolve_btfids Q HOSTCC HOSTLD HOSTAR
include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@ $(BINARY_IN): fixdep FORCE prepare | $(OUTPUT)

$(BINARY): $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(BINARY_IN)
$(call msg,LINK,$@)
- $(Q)$(HOSTCC) $(BINARY_IN) $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) -o $@ $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(LIBS)
+ $(Q)$(HOSTCC) $(BINARY_IN) $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(LIBS)

clean_objects := $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)/*.o \
$(OUTPUT)/.*.o.cmd \
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
index 6776158f1f3e..72a9ba41f95e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ ifneq ($(wildcard $(GENHDR)),)
endif

BPF_GCC ?= $(shell command -v bpf-gcc;)
+ifdef ASAN
+SAN_CFLAGS ?= -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer
+else
SAN_CFLAGS ?=
+endif
SAN_LDFLAGS ?= $(SAN_CFLAGS)
RELEASE ?=
OPT_FLAGS ?= $(if $(RELEASE),-O2,-O0)
@@ -326,8 +330,8 @@ $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL): $(wildcard $(BPFTOOLDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFTOOLDIR)/Makefile) \
$(HOST_BPFOBJ) | $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(BPFTOOLDIR) \
ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= CC="$(HOSTCC)" LD="$(HOSTLD)" \
- EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g $(OPT_FLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)' \
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS='$(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)' \
+ EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g $(OPT_FLAGS) $(SAN_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)' \
+ EXTRA_LDFLAGS='$(SAN_LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)' \
OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool/ \
LIBBPF_OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/ \
LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)/ \
@@ -338,8 +342,8 @@ $(CROSS_BPFTOOL): $(wildcard $(BPFTOOLDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFTOOLDIR)/Makefile) \
$(BPFOBJ) | $(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(BPFTOOLDIR) \
ARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(CROSS_COMPILE) \
- EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g $(OPT_FLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)' \
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS='$(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)' \
+ EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g $(OPT_FLAGS) $(SAN_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)' \
+ EXTRA_LDFLAGS='$(SAN_LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)' \
OUTPUT=$(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool/ \
LIBBPF_OUTPUT=$(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/ \
LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(SCRATCH_DIR)/ \
@@ -404,6 +408,7 @@ $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS): $(HOST_BPFOBJ) | $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/resolve_btfids \
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(TOOLSDIR)/bpf/resolve_btfids \
CC="$(HOSTCC)" LD="$(HOSTLD)" AR="$(HOSTAR)" \
LIBBPF_INCLUDE=$(HOST_INCLUDE_DIR) \
+ EXTRA_LDFLAGS='$(SAN_LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)' \
OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/resolve_btfids/ BPFOBJ=$(HOST_BPFOBJ)

# Get Clang's default includes on this system, as opposed to those seen by
--
2.53.0