netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix samples to add fake KBUILD

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Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:46:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix samples to add fake KBUILD_MODNAME

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:37:53 +0200

> Some of the sample files are causing issues when they are loaded with tc
> and cls_bpf, meaning tc bails out while trying to parse the resulting ELF
> file as program/map/etc sections are not present, which can be easily
> spotted with readelf(1).
> 
> Currently, BPF samples are including some of the kernel headers and mid
> term we should change them to refrain from this, really. When dynamic
> debugging is enabled, we bail out due to undeclared KBUILD_MODNAME, which
> is easily overlooked in the build as clang spills this along with other
> noisy warnings from various header includes, and llc still generates an
> ELF file with mentioned characteristics. For just playing around with BPF
> examples, this can be a bit of a hurdle to take.
> 
> Just add a fake KBUILD_MODNAME as a band-aid to fix the issue, same is
> done in xdp*_kern samples already.
> 
> Fixes: 65d472fb007d ("samples/bpf: add 'pointer to packet' tests")
> Fixes: 6afb1e28b859 ("samples/bpf: Add tunnel set/get tests.")
> Fixes: a3f74617340b ("cgroup: bpf: Add an example to do cgroup checking in BPF")
> Reported-by: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan@...sole.to>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Applied.