netdev - Re: [PATCH] selftests: fix bpf build/test workflow regression when KBUILD

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Date:   Fri, 10 May 2019 21:37:31 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     shuah@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, davem@...emloft.net,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: fix bpf build/test workflow regression when
 KBUILD_OUTPUT is set

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:52:49PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> commit 8ce72dc32578 ("selftests: fix headers_install circular dependency")
> broke bpf build/test workflow. When KBUILD_OUTPUT is set, bpf objects end
> up in KBUILD_OUTPUT build directory instead of in ../selftests/bpf.
> 
> The following bpf workflow breaks when it can't find the test_verifier:
> 
> cd tools/testing/selftests/bpf; make; ./test_verifier;
> 
> Fix it to set OUTPUT only when it is undefined in lib.mk. It didn't need
> to be set in the first place.
> 
> Fixes: commit 8ce72dc32578 ("selftests: fix headers_install circular dependency")
> 
> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>

'git am' couldn't apply this patch because "sha1 information is lacking",
but the patch itself looks good.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Thanks for the quick fix.