Re: [PATCH] bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH

From: Yuehaibing
Date: Fri Oct 16 2020 - 02:19:23 EST




On 2020/10/16 3:57, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:26 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:03:14 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> How so? It's using in-tree headers instead of system ones.
>>>> Many samples seem to be doing the same thing.
>>>
>>> There is no such thing as "usr/include" in the kernel build and source trees.
>>
>> Hm. I thought bpfilter somehow depends on make headers. But it doesn't
>> seem to. Reverting now.
>
> Thanks!
> Right. To explain it a bit further for the author of the patch:
> Some samples makefiles use this -I usr/include pattern.
> That's different. This local "usr/include" is a result of 'make
> headers_install'.

I didn't notice this, sorry for the wrong fix.

> For samples and such it's ok to depend on that, but bpfilter is
> the part of the kernel build.
> It cannot depend on the 'make headers_install' step,
> so the fix has to be different.

Yes, this should rework.

>
>>>>> Also please don't take bpf patches.
>>>>
>>>> You had it marked it as netdev in your patchwork :/
>>>
>>> It was delegated automatically by the patchwork system.
>>> I didn't have time to reassign, but you should have known better
>>> when you saw 'bpfilter' in the subject.
>>
>> The previous committers for bpfilter are almost all Dave, so I checked
>> your patchwork to make sure and it was netdev...
>
> It was my fault. I was sloppy in the past and didn't pay enough attention
> to bpfilter and it started to bitrot because Dave was applying patches
> with his normal SLAs while I was silent.
> .
>