linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.10 055/103] selftests/bpf: Clarify build error if no vmlinux

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Message-Id: <20210115122008.713997976@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:27:48 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 055/103] selftests/bpf: Clarify build error if no vmlinux

From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>

commit 1a3449c19407a28f7019a887cdf0d6ba2444751a upstream.

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")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201215182011.15755-1-kamal@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS ?= $(if $(O),$(O)/vmli
 		     /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux				\
 		     /boot/vmlinux-$(shell uname -r)
 VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS))))
+ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),)
+$(error Cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)")
+endif
 
 DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(SCRATCH_DIR)/sbin/bpftool