netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v2] tools/bpftool: copy a few net uapi headers to tools directory

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Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 08:39:26 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, ast@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        zhijianx.li@...el.com
Cc:     kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2] tools/bpftool: copy a few net uapi headers to
 tools directory

On 11/08/2018 04:55 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Commit f6f3bac08ff9 ("tools/bpf: bpftool: add net support")
> added certain networking support to bpftool.
> The implementation relies on a relatively recent uapi header file
> linux/tc_act/tc_bpf.h on the host which contains the marco
> definition of TCA_ACT_BPF_ID.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not the case for all distributions.
> See the email message below where rhel-7.2 does not have
> an up-to-date linux/tc_act/tc_bpf.h.
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1799211.html
> Further investigation found that linux/pkt_cls.h is also needed for macro
> TCA_BPF_TAG.
> 
> This patch fixed the issue by copying linux/tc_act/tc_bpf.h
> and linux/pkt_cls.h from kernel include/uapi directory to
> tools/include/uapi directory so building the bpftool does not depend
> on host system for these files.
> 
> Fixes: f6f3bac08ff9 ("tools/bpf: bpftool: add net support")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
> Cc: Li Zhijian <zhijianx.li@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>

Applied to bpf, thanks Yonghong!