Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] UNH-IOL ABI Failures

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

20/04/2021 17:30, Brandon Lo:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have noticed some failures occurring repeatedly in our CI system
> regarding the ABI test.
> 
> I looked into the failures and saw that there were some failures
> caused by a clock skew issue on the ARM ABI test.
> Those failures have been rerun and the report will be resent to
> patchworks for the updated result.
> 
> However, the earlier test runs seem to report an actual failure:
> 
> "1 function with some indirect sub-type change:
> 
>   [C]'function rte_security_session*
> rte_security_session_create(rte_security_ctx*,
> rte_security_session_conf*, rte_mempool*, rte_mempool*)' at
> rte_security.c:43:1 has some indirect sub-type changes:
>     parameter 2 of type 'rte_security_session_conf*' has sub-type changes:
>       in pointed to type 'struct rte_security_session_conf' at
> rte_security.h:366:1:
>         type size hasn't changed
>         1 data member change:
>          type of 'rte_crypto_sym_xform*
> rte_security_session_conf::crypto_xform' changed:
>            in pointed to type 'struct rte_crypto_sym_xform' at
> rte_crypto_sym.h:575:1:
>              type size hasn't changed
>              1 data member changes (1 filtered):
> 
> Error: ABI issue reported for 'abidiff --suppr
> dpdk/devtools/libabigail.abignore --no-added-syms --headers-dir1
> reference/usr/local/include --headers-dir2 build/usr/local/include
> reference/dump/librte_security.dump build/dump/librte_security.dump'
> 
> ABIDIFF_ABI_CHANGE, this change requires a review (abidiff flagged
> this as a potential issue)."
> 
> Can anyone please confirm that this is a real ABI issue or if this
> requires a change on the UNH-IOL side.

It requires libabigail 1.8 on UNH-IOL side.