Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build error

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Alexei,

On Fri, 9 May 2025 10:04:18 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov 
<alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM Saket Kumar Bhaskar <sk...@linux.ibm.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On linux-next, build for bpf selftest displays an error due to
> > mismatch in the expected function signature of bpf_testmod_test_read
> > and bpf_testmod_test_write.
> >
> > Commit 97d06802d10a ("sysfs: constify bin_attribute argument of 
> > bin_attribute::read/write()")
> > changed the required type for struct bin_attribute to const struct 
> > bin_attribute.
> >
> > To resolve the error, update corresponding signature for the callback.
> >
> > Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venka...@linux.ibm.com>
> > Closes: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/e915da49-2b9a-4c4c-a34f-877f37812...@linux.ibm.com/
> > Signed-off-by: Saket Kumar Bhaskar <sk...@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_kmods/bpf_testmod.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_kmods/bpf_testmod.c 
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_kmods/bpf_testmod.c
> > index 2e54b95ad898..194c442580ee 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_kmods/bpf_testmod.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_kmods/bpf_testmod.c
> > @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ int bpf_testmod_fentry_ok;
> >
> >  noinline ssize_t
> >  bpf_testmod_test_read(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
> > -                     struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
> > +                     const struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
> >                       char *buf, loff_t off, size_t len)  
> 
> You didn't even compile it :(
> 
> Instead of fixing the build, it breaks the build.
> 
> pw-bot: cr

This patch is only needed in linux-next.  It should be applied to the
driver-core tree - since that includes commit 97d06802d10a.  It should
also have a Fixes tag referencing commit 97d06802d10a.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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