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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:34:24 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: Fix build in minimal configurations, again

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:35:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building with -Werror showed another failure:
> 
> kernel/bpf/btf.c: In function 'btf_get_prog_ctx_type.isra.31':
> kernel/bpf/btf.c:3508:63: error: array subscript 0 is above array bounds of 'u8[0]' {aka 'unsigned char[0]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]
>   ctx_type = btf_type_member(conv_struct) + bpf_ctx_convert_map[prog_type] * 2;
> 
> I don't actually understand why the array is empty, but a similar
> fix has addressed a related problem, so I suppose we can do the
> same thing here.
> 
> Fixes: ce27709b8162 ("bpf: Fix build in minimal configurations")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/btf.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
> index 7d40da240891..ed2075884724 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
> @@ -3470,6 +3470,7 @@ static u8 bpf_ctx_convert_map[] = {
>  	[_id] = __ctx_convert##_id,
>  #include <linux/bpf_types.h>
>  #undef BPF_PROG_TYPE
> +	0, /* avoid empty array */
If bpf_types.h is empty, the prog should have already failed
earlier in find_prog_type() in syscall.c, so 0 here should
be fine.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>