This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests/bpf: fix RELEASE=1 build for tc_opts to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-bpf-fix-release-1-build-for-tc_opts.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1a84a3af96fa6497d9b09683c7e3f67c8480078f Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 1 20:37:43 2023 -0700 selftests/bpf: fix RELEASE=1 build for tc_opts [ Upstream commit 2b62aa59d02ed281fa4fc218df3ca91b773e1e62 ] Compiler complains about malloc(). We also don't need to dynamically allocate anything, so make the life easier by using statically sized buffer. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231102033759.2541186-2-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_opts.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_opts.c index ca506d2fcf58..d6fd09c2d6e6 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_opts.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_opts.c @@ -2387,12 +2387,9 @@ static int generate_dummy_prog(void) const size_t prog_insn_cnt = sizeof(prog_insns) / sizeof(struct bpf_insn); LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_prog_load_opts, opts); const size_t log_buf_sz = 256; - char *log_buf; + char log_buf[log_buf_sz]; int fd = -1; - log_buf = malloc(log_buf_sz); - if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(log_buf, "log_buf_alloc")) - return fd; opts.log_buf = log_buf; opts.log_size = log_buf_sz; @@ -2402,7 +2399,6 @@ static int generate_dummy_prog(void) prog_insns, prog_insn_cnt, &opts); ASSERT_STREQ(log_buf, "", "log_0"); ASSERT_GE(fd, 0, "prog_fd"); - free(log_buf); return fd; }