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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:08:01 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] libbpf: Fix compile error in
 libbpf_attach_type_by_name

On 10/31/2018 09:49 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Andrey Ignatov escreveu:
>> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo reported build error in libbpf when clang
>> version 3.8.1-24 (tags/RELEASE_381/final) is used:
>>
>> libbpf.c:2201:36: error: comparison of constant -22 with expression of
>> type 'const enum bpf_attach_type' is always false
>> [-Werror,-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
>>                 if (section_names[i].attach_type == -EINVAL)
>>                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~
>> 1 error generated.
>>
>> Fix the error by keeping "is_attachable" property of a program in a
>> separate struct field instead of trying to use attach_type itself.
> 
> Thanks, now it builds in all the previously failing systems:
> 
> # export PERF_TARBALL=http://192.168.86.4/perf/perf-4.19.0.tar.xz
> # dm debian:9 fedora:25 fedora:26 fedora:27 ubuntu:16.04 ubuntu:17.10
>    1 debian:9        : Ok   gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516          clang version 3.8.1-24 (tags/RELEASE_381/final)
>    2 fedora:25       : Ok   gcc (GCC) 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1)           clang version 3.9.1 (tags/RELEASE_391/final)
>    3 fedora:26       : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)           clang version 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
>    4 fedora:27       : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-6)           clang version 5.0.2 (tags/RELEASE_502/final)
>    5 ubuntu:16.04    : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609  clang version 3.8.0-2ubuntu4 (tags/RELEASE_380/final)
>    6 ubuntu:17.10    : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0                  clang version 4.0.1-6 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
> #
> 
> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

Thanks everyone, applied to bpf tree.