Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: fix missing * in bpf.h

[Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 8:50 AM Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com> wrote:
>
> 2021-02-24 10:59 UTC-0800 ~ Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:55 AM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/23/21 3:43 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:45:54 +0800
> >>> Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Commit 34b2021cc616 ("bpf: Add BPF-helper for MTU checking") lost a *
> >>>> in bpf.h. This will make bpf_helpers_doc.py stop building
> >>>> bpf_helper_defs.h immediately after bpf_check_mtu, which will affect
> >>>> future add functions.
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: 34b2021cc616 ("bpf: Add BPF-helper for MTU checking")
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>   include/uapi/linux/bpf.h       | 2 +-
> >>>>   tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 2 +-
> >>>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for fixing that!
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> Thanks guys, applied!
> >>
> >>> I though I had already fix that, but I must have missed or reintroduced
> >>> this, when I rolling back broken ideas in V13.
> >>>
> >>> I usually run this command to check the man-page (before submitting):
> >>>
> >>>   ./scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py | rst2man | man -l -
> >>
> >> [+ Andrii] maybe this could be included to run as part of CI to catch such
> >> things in advance?
> >
> > We do something like that as part of bpftool build, so there is no
> > reason we can't add this to selftests/bpf/Makefile as well.
>
> Hi, pretty sure this is the case already? [0]
>
> This helps catching RST formatting issues, for example if a description
> is using invalid markup, and reported by rst2man. My understanding is
> that in the current case, the missing star simply ends the block for the
> helpers documentation from the parser point of view, it's not considered
> an error.
>
> I see two possible workarounds:
>
> 1) Check that the number of helpers found ("len(self.helpers)") is equal
> to the number of helpers in the file, but that requires knowing how many
> helpers we have in the first place (e.g. parsing "__BPF_FUNC_MAPPER(FN)").

It's a bit hacky, but you could also just count a number of '*
\tDescription' lines.

>
> 2) Add some ending tag to the documentation block, and make sure we
> eventually reach it. This is probably a much simpler solution. I could
> work on this (or sync with Joe (+Cc) who is also working on these bits
> for documenting the bpf() syscall).

Fine by me as well.


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> [0]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/tree/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile?h=v5.11#n189
>
> Quentin