Re: selftests: connector: proc_filter.c:48:20: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct proc_input'

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Fri Jul 28 2023 - 13:34:04 EST


On 7/27/23 19:38, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:


On Jul 27, 2023, at 5:43 PM, Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/27/23 11:34, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
On Jul 25, 2023, at 9:48 AM, Anjali Kulkarni <Anjali.K.Kulkarni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Jul 25, 2023, at 6:05 AM, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

selftests: connector: proc_filter build failed with clang-16 due to below
warnings / errors on Linux next-20230725.

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>

clang --target=aarch64-linux-gnu -fintegrated-as
-Werror=unknown-warning-option -Werror=ignored-optimization-argument
-Werror=option-ignored -Werror=unused-command-line-argument
--target=aarch64-linux-gnu -fintegrated-as -Wall proc_filter.c -o
/home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/1/build/kselftest/connector/proc_filter
proc_filter.c:42:12: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an
incomplete type 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
proc_filter.c:22:5: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:48:20: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an
incomplete type 'struct proc_input'
hdr->nlmsg_len = NL_MESSAGE_SIZE;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
proc_filter.c:22:5: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:64:14: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an
incomplete type 'struct proc_input'
msg->len = sizeof(struct proc_input);
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:65:35: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct proc_input'
((struct proc_input *)msg->data)->mcast_op =
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:66:31: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct proc_input'
((struct proc_input *)pinp)->mcast_op;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:67:35: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct proc_input'
((struct proc_input *)msg->data)->event_type =
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:68:31: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct proc_input'
((struct proc_input *)pinp)->event_type;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
proc_filter.c:42:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
char buff[NL_MESSAGE_SIZE];
^
proc_filter.c:22:19: note: expanded from macro 'NL_MESSAGE_SIZE'
sizeof(struct proc_input))
^
proc_filter.c:245:20: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct proc_input'
struct proc_input input;
^
proc_filter.c:245:9: note: forward declaration of 'struct proc_input'
struct proc_input input;
^
proc_filter.c:264:22: error: use of undeclared identifier
'PROC_EVENT_NONZERO_EXIT'
input.event_type = PROC_EVENT_NONZERO_EXIT;
^
9 errors generated.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/builds/linux/tools/testing/selftests/connector’


These are expected since you need to have the changes in kernel that were committed with this patch to be installed on the kernel on which this is being compiled/run on. That is what the test is for, and the check to make it run on previous kernels as well was made a runtime check. Do you expect this to compile on a kernel without the corresponding kernel changes that were committed with this patch?

Anjali
Gentle ping - could you answer above questions?


I am seeing the same on linux-next next-20230727

PROC_EVENT_NONZERO_EXIT is defined and NL_MESSAGE_SIZE

Anjali,

What are the dependent commits and should they be in next?
Shouldn't this test patch go with the kernel patches it depends
on? Can you do some testing on next and let me know why this
test is failing to build?

All the commits went in together - however, the kernel changes that went in this patch need to be *installed on kernel on which this is being built*. Did you do that and then try?


Building kernel and running "make headers" before building the test
is what is needed. That is what Naresh and I did.

How are you building this test?

I sent a 3 patch series with the fix to this problem and a couple of
others I found during testing.

Also please check the error messages - some of them are cryptic and
could use clarity.

Another thing is argument check - arg == 2 - does this test require
arguments? Note that without arguments the test runs - of that is
default it is fine. This test could use an usage information. Please
fix the above.

thanks,
-- Shuah