Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests: Make sure all 'skel' variables are declared static

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:59:27 +0200

Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:32 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> If programs in prog_tests using skeletons declare the 'skel' variable as
>> global but not static, that will lead to linker errors on the final link of
>> the prog_tests binary due to duplicate symbols. Fix a few instances of this.
>>
>> Fixes: b18c1f0aa477 ("bpf: selftest: Adapt sock_fields test to use skel and global variables")
>> Fixes: 9a856cae2217 ("bpf: selftest: Add test_btf_skc_cls_ingress")
>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email-masked]>
>
> Thanks for the fix. Applied.

You're welcome! And thanks :)

> I wonder why we don't see it with different gcc and clang versions.

Yeah, I was wondering about that as well, actually...

> What linker do you use?
> And what kind of error do you see?

  BINARY   test_progs
/usr/bin/ld: /home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sock_fields.test.o:/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sock_fields.c:39: multiple definition of `skel'; /home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/btf_skc_cls_ingress.test.o:/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_skc_cls_ingress.c:19: first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:397: /home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs] Error 1

$  ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 10.2.0

-Toke