From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
To: Saket Kumar Bhaskar <skb99@linux.ibm.com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [linux-next] selftests/bpf fails to build
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 17:32:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e915da49-2b9a-4c4c-a34f-877f378129f6@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
Hello,
I am observing selftests/bpf fails to build on the next-20250508 kernel.
Errors:
GEN
/root/linux-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/vmlinux.h
bpf_testmod.c:494:17: error: initialization of 'ssize_t (*)(struct file
*, struct kobject *, const struct bin_attribute *, char *, loff_t,
size_t)' {aka 'long int (*)(struct file *, struct kobject *, const
struct bin_attribute *, char *, long long int, long unsigned int)'}
from incompatible pointer type 'ssize_t (*)(struct file *, struct
kobject *, struct bin_attribute *, char *, loff_t, size_t)' {aka 'long
int (*)(struct file *, struct kobject *, struct bin_attribute *, char *,
long long int, long unsigned int)'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
494 | .read = bpf_testmod_test_read,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bpf_testmod.c:494:17: note: (near initialization for
'bin_attr_bpf_testmod_file.read')
bpf_testmod.c:495:18: error: initialization of 'ssize_t (*)(struct file
*, struct kobject *, const struct bin_attribute *, char *, loff_t,
size_t)' {aka 'long int (*)(struct file *, struct kobject *, const
struct bin_attribute *, char *, long long int, long unsigned int)'}
from incompatible pointer type 'ssize_t (*)(struct file *, struct
kobject *, struct bin_attribute *, char *, loff_t, size_t)' {aka 'long
int (*)(struct file *, struct kobject *, struct bin_attribute *, char *,
long long int, long unsigned int)'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
495 | .write = bpf_testmod_test_write,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bpf_testmod.c:495:18: note: (near initialization for
'bin_attr_bpf_testmod_file.write')
make[4]: *** [/root/linux-next/scripts/Makefile.build:203:
bpf_testmod.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/root/linux-next/Makefile:2009: .] Error 2
make[2]: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:18: all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:282: test_kmods/bpf_testmod.ko] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs...
If you happen to fix this, please add below tag.
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Regards,
Venkat.
next reply other threads:[~2025-05-09 12:02 UTC|newest]
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2025-05-09 12:10 ` [linux-next] selftests/bpf fails to build Saket Kumar Bhaskar
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