Re: [PATCH 1/1] libbpf: ensure F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is defined

From: James Hilliard
Date: Sat Mar 05 2022 - 04:57:56 EST


On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 12:01 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 7:00 AM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi James,
> >
> > On 2/27/22 3:25 PM, James Hilliard wrote:
> > > This definition seems to be missing from some older toolchains.
> > >
> > > Note that the fcntl.h in libbpf_internal.h is not a kernel header
> > > but rather a toolchain libc header.
> > >
> > > Fixes:
> > > libbpf_internal.h:521:18: error: 'F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'FD_CLOEXEC'?
> > > fd = fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 3);
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > FD_CLOEXEC
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Do you have some more info on your env (e.g. libc)? Looks like F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
> > was added back in 2.6.24 kernel. When did libc add it?
>
> It seems like it's guarded by __USE_XOPEN2K8 in glibc (from a quick
> glance at glibc code). But it's been there since 2010 or so, at the
> very least.

The toolchain that hit this issue appears to be uclibc based which seems to have
had some bugs with the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC definition.

>
> >
> > Should we instead just add an include for <linux/fcntl.h> to libbpf_internal.h
> > (given it defines F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC as well)?
>
> yep, this is UAPI header so we can use it easily (we'll need to sync
> it into Github repo, but that's not a problem)
>
>
> >
> > > ---
> > > tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h | 4 ++++
> > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> > > index 4fda8bdf0a0d..d2a86b5a457a 100644
> > > --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> > > +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> > > @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
> > > #define EM_BPF 247
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > +#ifndef F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
> > > +#define F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC 1030
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > > #ifndef R_BPF_64_64
> > > #define R_BPF_64_64 1
> > > #endif
> > >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daniel