netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ebpf: bpf_map_*: fix linker error on avr32 and openrisc arch

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Date:	Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:05:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, ast@...mgrid.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ebpf: bpf_map_*: fix linker error on avr32
 and openrisc arch

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2015 23:27:51 +0100

> Fengguang reported, that on openrisc and avr32 architectures, we
> get the following linker errors on *_defconfig builds that have
> no bpf syscall support:
> 
>   net/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1cd0): undefined reference to `bpf_map_lookup_elem_proto'
>   net/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1cd4): undefined reference to `bpf_map_update_elem_proto'
>   net/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1cd8): undefined reference to `bpf_map_delete_elem_proto'
> 
> Fix it up by providing built-in weak definitions of the symbols,
> so they can be overridden when the syscall is enabled. I think
> the issue might be that gcc is not able to optimize all that away.
> This patch fixes the linker errors for me, tested with Fengguang's
> make.cross [1] script.
> 
>   [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross
> 
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Fixes: d4052c4aea0c ("ebpf: remove CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL ifdefs in socket filter code")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Applied, thanks.
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