From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
To: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] selftests: netfilter: use KHDR_INCLUDES in CFLAGS
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 18:41:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d871ca2-1db4-47b8-bd48-34b3fa42961e@ovn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904-net-sft-nf-khdr_includes-v1-1-92455af428e9@kernel.org>
On 9/4/26 6:13 PM, Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) wrote:
> KHDR_INCLUDES is typically used to include headers from the kernel
> source directory instead of only relying on the ones from the host: they
> can be missing or outdated.
>
> The kselftest doc recommends assigning KHDR_INCLUDES to CFLAGS in a
> target Makefile. lib.mk will set KHDR_INCLUDES to "-isystem
> $(top_srcdir)/usr/include" if the user didn't set it, e.g. if the kernel
> was built in a different build directory.
>
> Other net targets have KHDR_INCLUDES added to their CFLAGS.
>
> Fixes: 3f189349e52a ("selftests: netfilter: move to net subdir")
I think, this should point to a commit that added the first C test:
Fixes: a64d558d8cf9 ("selftests: netfilter: add nfqueue test case")
> Link: https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/kselftest.html#contributing-new-tests-details
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile
> index f88dd4ef8d26..df3c20c90f5d 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/Makefile
> @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
>
> top_srcdir = ../../../../..
>
> +CFLAGS += $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
> +
> HOSTPKG_CONFIG := pkg-config
> MNL_CFLAGS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) --cflags libmnl 2>/dev/null)
> MNL_LDLIBS := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) --libs libmnl 2>/dev/null || echo -lmnl)
>
This solves my problem with building netfilter tests locally with uAPI
modifications. Beside the Fixes tag, LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 16:13 [PATCH net 0/2] selftests: net: use KHDR_INCLUDES in CFLAGS Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-09-04 16:13 ` [PATCH net 1/2] selftests: netfilter: " Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-09-04 16:41 ` Ilya Maximets [this message]
2026-09-04 16:55 ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-09-04 16:13 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: forwarding: " Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
2026-09-04 16:44 ` Ilya Maximets
2026-09-04 18:20 ` [PATCH net 0/2] selftests: net: " Matthieu Baerts
2026-09-04 18:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
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