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From:   Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
To:     Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
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Cc:     Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: clarify build error if no vmlinux
Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:20:48 -0800
Message-Id: <20201214202049.7205-1-kamal@canonical.com>
Precedence: bulk

If Makefile cannot find any of the vmlinux's in its VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS list,
it tries to run btftool incorrectly, with VMLINUX_BTF unset:

    bpftool btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c

Such that the keyword 'format' is misinterpreted as the path to vmlinux.
The resulting build error message is fairly cryptic:

      GEN      vmlinux.h
    Error: failed to load BTF from format: No such file or directory

This patch makes the failure reason clearer by yielding this instead:

    Makefile:...: *** cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of
    "{paths}".  Stop.

Fixes: acbd06206bbb ("selftests/bpf: Add vmlinux.h selftest exercising tracing of syscalls")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.7+
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
index 542768f5195b..93ed34ef6e3f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf $(BUILD_DIR)/bpftool $(BUILD_DIR)/resolve_btfids $(INCLUDE_D
 $(INCLUDE_DIR)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) | $(BPFTOOL) $(INCLUDE_DIR)
 ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),)
 	$(call msg,GEN,,$@)
+ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),)
+$(error cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)")
+endif
 	$(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@
 else
 	$(call msg,CP,,$@)
-- 
2.17.1