Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: workarounds for GCC BPF build

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On Monday, January 6th, 2025 at 7:05 AM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 1/4/25 1:17 AM, Ihor Solodrai wrote:
> 
> > Various compilation errors happen when BPF programs in selftests/bpf
> > are built with GCC BPF. For more details see the discussion at [1].
> 
> 
> Thanks for the patch!

Hi Daniel, thanks for review.

> 
> > The changes only affect test_progs-bpf_gcc, which is built only if
> > BPF_GCC is set:
> > * Pass -std=gnu17 when to avoid errors on bool
> > types declarations in vmlinux.h
> > * Pass -nostdinc for tests that trigger int64_t declaration
> > collision due to a difference between gcc and clang stdint.h
> > * Pass -Wno-error for tests that trigger uninitialized variable
> > warning pm BPF_RAW_INSNS
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/EYcXjcKDCJY7Yb0GGtAAb7nLKPEvrgWdvWpuNzXm2qi6rYMZDixKv5KwfVVMBq17V55xyC-A1wIjrqG3aw-Imqudo9q9X7D7nLU2gWgbN0w=@pm.me/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai ihor.solodrai@xxxxx
> 
> 
> [ pls also add Jose to Cc (done here) ]
> 
> > ---
> > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> > index 9e870e519c30..2e1fe53efa83 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
> > @@ -103,6 +103,15 @@ progs/btf_dump_test_case_packing.c-bpf_gcc-CFLAGS := -Wno-error
> > progs/btf_dump_test_case_padding.c-bpf_gcc-CFLAGS := -Wno-error
> > progs/btf_dump_test_case_syntax.c-bpf_gcc-CFLAGS := -Wno-error
> > 
> > +# Uninitialized variable warning on BPF_RAW_INSN
> > +progs/verifier_bpf_fastcall.c-CFLAGS := -Wno-error
> > +progs/verifier_search_pruning.c-CFLAGS := -Wno-error
> 
> 
> See previous feedback from Jose:
> 
> Ignoring the warning doesn't cure the resulting undefined behavior.
> These selftests seems to be violating strict aliasing rules, so it is
> better to either change the testcase to work well with anti-aliasing
> rules or to disable strict aliasing, like it is done for many other
> tests already:
> 
> progs/verifier_bpf_fastcall.c-CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing
> progs/verifier_search_pruning.c-CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing

Yeah, I haven't seen this message before sending the patch.

> 
> > +# int64_t declaration collision
> > +progs/test_cls_redirect.c-CFLAGS := -nostdinc
> > +progs/test_cls_redirect_dynptr.c-CFLAGS := -nostdinc
> > +progs/test_cls_redirect_subprogs.c-CFLAGS := -nostdinc
> 
> 
> iiuc, this hunk is not needed given [1] got merged which addresses the
> collision issue already?
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/87pll3c8bt.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-January/672508.html
> 

I am going to test the GCC change, and will send v2 shortly after.

Thanks!

> > # The following tests do type-punning, via the __imm_insn macro, from
> > # `struct bpf_insn' to long and then uses the value. This triggers an
> > # "is used uninitialized" warning in GCC due to strict-aliasing
> > @@ -507,7 +516,7 @@ endef
> > # Build BPF object using GCC
> > define GCC_BPF_BUILD_RULE
> > $(call msg,GCC-BPF,$4,$2)
> > - $(Q)$(BPF_GCC) $3 -DBPF_NO_PRESERVE_ACCESS_INDEX -Wno-attributes -O2 -c $1 -o $2
> > + $(Q)$(BPF_GCC) $3 -DBPF_NO_PRESERVE_ACCESS_INDEX -Wno-attributes -O2 -std=gnu17 -c $1 -o $2
> > endef
> > 
> > SKEL_BLACKLIST := btf__% test_pinning_invalid.c test_sk_assign.c






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