netdev - Re: selftests: connector: proc_filter.c:48:20: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct proc

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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:34:17 -0600
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@...cle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
 "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
 open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org" <lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org>,
 Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>,
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: selftests: connector: proc_filter.c:48:20: error: invalid
 application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct proc_input'

On 7/28/23 10:46, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:38:40 +0000 Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
>>> Jakub,
>>> Do I need to revert the -f runtime filter option back to compile time
>>> and commit with that disabled so the selftest compiles on a kernel on
>>> which the new options are not defined?
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure myself on what's the expectations for building
>> selftests against uAPI headers is..
>>
>> I _think_ that you're supposed to add an -I$something to
>> the CFLAGS in your Makefile. KHDR_INCLUDES maybe? So that the uAPI
>> headers from the build get used (rendered by make headers).
>>
>> Take a look at Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst, I hope
>> the answer is somewhere there.
> Ok thanks, I will look into your suggestions.
> Anjali
> 

I sent a 3 patch series with the fix to this problem and a couple of
others I found during testing.

thanks,
-- Shuah