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

From: Saket Kumar Bhaskar <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 10:55:59 +0530

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 11:04:55AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Alexei,
> 
> On Fri, 9 May 2025 10:04:18 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM Saket Kumar Bhaskar <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]>
> > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> > > Signed-off-by: Saket Kumar Bhaskar <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  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
Hi Stephen,

Apologies for missing the Fixes tag. Would you like me to resend the patch with the 
Fixes tag included?

Thanks,
Saket