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Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:37:59 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: clarify build error if no vmlinux

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:21 PM Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> If Makefile cannot find any of the vmlinux's in its VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS list,
> it tries to run btftool incorrectly, with VMLINUX_BTF unset:
>
>     bpftool btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c
>
> Such that the keyword 'format' is misinterpreted as the path to vmlinux.
> The resulting build error message is fairly cryptic:
>
>       GEN      vmlinux.h
>     Error: failed to load BTF from format: No such file or directory
>
> This patch makes the failure reason clearer by yielding this instead:
>
>     Makefile:...: *** cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of
>     "{paths}".  Stop.
>
> Fixes: acbd06206bbb ("selftests/bpf: Add vmlinux.h selftest exercising tracing of syscalls")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 5.7+
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> index 542768f5195b..93ed34ef6e3f 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf $(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool $(BUILD_DIR)/resolve_btfids $(INCLUDE_D
>  $(INCLUDE_DIR)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) | $(BPFTOOL) $(INCLUDE_DIR)
>  ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),)
>         $(call msg,GEN,,$@)
> +ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),)
> +$(error cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)")
> +endif
>         $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@
>  else
>         $(call msg,CP,,$@)

This handles only one possible case where $(VMLINUX_BTF) is expected.

Given $(VMLINUX_BTF) is now almost mandatory to have (bpf_testmod.ko
is dependent on it, for instance), I think it's acceptable to just add
such a check right after VMLINUX_BTF definition, outside of any
specific rule. The downside is that some unrelated targets (e.g.,
non-test_progs tests) will fail if VMLINUX_BTF is not found, even if
they don't need it, but the most common use case us to build
test_progs, as well as bpf_testmod.ko and runqslower, so I think it's
an OK trade off. Worst case, one can work around such with
VMLINUX_BTF=whatever command-line overload.

> --
> 2.17.1
>