From patchwork Mon Dec 14 20:20:48 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 11972971 X-Patchwork-Delegate: bpf@iogearbox.net Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09D0C2BB40 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C58225AB for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2503171AbgLNUVy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:21:54 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:36369 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2503125AbgLNUVu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:21:50 -0500 Received: from [192.188.8.81] (helo=ascalon) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kouL3-0007W7-FK; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:20:57 +0000 Received: from kamal by ascalon with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kouL0-0001v1-Ls; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:20:54 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Shuah Khan , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , John Fastabend , KP Singh , =?utf-8?q?Toke_H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= , linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kamal Mostafa , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: clarify build error if no vmlinux Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:20:48 -0800 Message-Id: <20201214202049.7205-1-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org X-Patchwork-Delegate: bpf@iogearbox.net If Makefile cannot find any of the vmlinux's in its VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS list, it tries to run btftool incorrectly, with VMLINUX_BTF unset: bpftool btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c Such that the keyword 'format' is misinterpreted as the path to vmlinux. The resulting build error message is fairly cryptic: GEN vmlinux.h Error: failed to load BTF from format: No such file or directory This patch makes the failure reason clearer by yielding this instead: Makefile:...: *** cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "{paths}". Stop. Fixes: acbd06206bbb ("selftests/bpf: Add vmlinux.h selftest exercising tracing of syscalls") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.7+ Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile index 542768f5195b..93ed34ef6e3f 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile @@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf $(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool $(BUILD_DIR)/resolve_btfids $(INCLUDE_D $(INCLUDE_DIR)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) | $(BPFTOOL) $(INCLUDE_DIR) ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),) $(call msg,GEN,,$@) +ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),) +$(error cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)") +endif $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@ else $(call msg,CP,,$@)