[PATCH 4/6] test: fix unsupported BPF instructions in elf load test

Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18T20:12:56Z

The DPDK BPF library only handles the base BPF instructions.
It does not handle JMP32 which would cause the bpf_elf_load
test to fail on clang 20 or later.

Bugzilla ID: 1844
Fixes: cf1e03f881af ("test/bpf: add ELF loading")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
app/test/bpf/meson.build | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/test/bpf/meson.build b/app/test/bpf/meson.build
index aaecfa7018..91c1b434f8 100644
--- a/app/test/bpf/meson.build
+++ b/app/test/bpf/meson.build
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ if not xxd.found()
endif

# BPF compiler flags
-bpf_cflags = [ '-O2', '-target', 'bpf', '-g', '-c']
+# At present: DPDK BPF does not support v3 or later
+bpf_cflags = [ '-O2', '-target', 'bpf', '-mcpu=v2', '-g', '-c']

# Enable test in test_bpf.c
cflags += '-DTEST_BPF_ELF_LOAD'
--
2.51.0