This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/bpf: fix test_spin_lock_fail.c's global vars usage
to the 6.12-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-test_spin_lock_fail.c-s-global-var.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a96b29d20776620bc938e85a4b35d2c19ffafb4b
Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 22 21:39:06 2024 -0700
selftests/bpf: fix test_spin_lock_fail.c's global vars usage
[ Upstream commit 1b2bfc29695d273492c3dd8512775261f3272686 ]
Global variables of special types (like `struct bpf_spin_lock`) make
underlying ARRAY maps non-mmapable. To make this work with libbpf's
mmaping logic, application is expected to declare such special variables
as static, so libbpf doesn't even attempt to mmap() such ARRAYs.
test_spin_lock_fail.c didn't follow this rule, but given it relied on
this test to trigger failures, this went unnoticed, as we never got to
the step of mmap()'ing these ARRAY maps.
It is fragile and relies on specific sequence of libbpf steps, which are
an internal implementation details.
Fix the test by marking lockA and lockB as static.
Fixes: c48748aea4f8 ("selftests/bpf: Add failure test cases for spin lock pairing")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023043908.3834423-2-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_spin_lock_fail.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_spin_lock_fail.c
index 43f40c4fe241a..1c8b678e2e9a3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_spin_lock_fail.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_spin_lock_fail.c
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ struct {
},
};
-SEC(".data.A") struct bpf_spin_lock lockA;
-SEC(".data.B") struct bpf_spin_lock lockB;
+static struct bpf_spin_lock lockA SEC(".data.A");
+static struct bpf_spin_lock lockB SEC(".data.B");
SEC("?tc")
int lock_id_kptr_preserve(void *ctx)
