tools/build: Remove bpf() run-time check at build time
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:33:15 +0000 (15:33 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:09:26 +0000 (23:09 +0100)
It is not correct to test that a syscall works on the build system's
kernel.  We might be building on an earlier kernel version or with
security restrictions that block bpf().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name tools-build-remove-bpf-run-time-check-at-build-time.patch

tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c

index 7598361ef1f10898ea73d944ae0b0c02c4725d99..e63f5ca51bc0ecb10b0af2198f3ca357cacf6a82 100644 (file)
@@ -31,9 +31,5 @@ int main(void)
        attr.kern_version = 0;
        attr.prog_flags = 0;
 
-       /*
-        * Test existence of __NR_bpf and BPF_PROG_LOAD.
-        * This call should fail if we run the testcase.
-        */
-       return syscall(__NR_bpf, BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+       return 0;
 }