On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:23:03PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 03:52:07PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > GCC 4.9 does not like having struct assignments to 0 when members may be
> > compound types. For example, there are 186 instances of these kinds of
> > errors:
> >
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c:146:9: error: missing braces around initializer [-Werror=missing-braces ]
> > drivers/cxl/core/regs.c:40:17: error: missing braces around initializer [-Werror=missing-braces]
> >
> > Since "= { 0 }" and "= { }" have the same meaning ("incomplete
> > initializer") they will both initialize the given variable to zero
> > (modulo padding games).
> >
> > After this change, I can almost build the "allmodconfig" target with
> > GCC 4.9 again.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ...
>
> > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/perf_branches.c | 4 +-
> > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sk_lookup.c | 12 +-
> > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockmap_ktls.c | 2 +-
> > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockmap_listen.c | 4 +-
> > .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_sk_assign.c | 6 +-
> > .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_xdp_vlan.c | 8 +-
>
> Those have nothing to do with GCC. They are compiled with clang with -target bpf.
> Did you check that bpf selftests still pass?
> We've had issues with older clang generating different code with zero and non-zero
> assignments and libbpf was confused.
> It should all work now, but please run the tests.
Sure! I think selftests/bpf/config is missing:
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
I can't get much further, though:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests gen_tar TARGETS="bpf" FORMAT=.xz
make: Entering directory '/srv/code/tools/testing/selftests'
make --no-builtin-rules ARCH=x86 -C ../../.. headers_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/srv/code'
INSTALL ./usr/include
make[1]: Leaving directory '/srv/code'
make: *** [Makefile:162: all] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/srv/code/tools/testing/selftests'
I'm not sure what's breaking ...
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Kees Cook
