On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM Menglong Dong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2026/3/6 06:21 Varun R Mallya <[email protected]> write:
> > Building selftests with
> > clang 23.0.0 (6fae863eba8a72cdd82f37e7111a46a70be525e0) triggers
> > the following error:
> >
> >   tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c:117:12:
> >   error: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers
> >   [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
> >
> > The variable `tgt_name` is declared as `char *`, but it stores the
> > result of strstr(prog_name[i], "/"). Since `prog_name[i]` is a
> > `const char *`, the returned pointer should also be treated as
> > const-qualified.
> >
> > Update `tgt_name` to `const char *` to match the type of the underlying
> > string and silence the compiler warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Varun R Mallya <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c 
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
> > index 23d933f1aec6..92c20803ea76 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c
> > @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static void test_fexit_bpf2bpf_common(const char 
> > *obj_file,
> >               struct bpf_link_info link_info;
> >               struct bpf_program *pos;
> >               const char *pos_sec_name;
> > -             char *tgt_name;
> > +             const char *tgt_name;
>
> I have been suffering from this build error too. So,
>
> Acked-by: Menglong Dong <[email protected]>

Looks like this patch was lost. Pls resend.

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