Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:32 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> If programs in prog_tests using skeletons declare the 'skel' variable as
>> global but not static, that will lead to linker errors on the final link of
>> the prog_tests binary due to duplicate symbols. Fix a few instances of this.
>>
>> Fixes: b18c1f0aa477 ("bpf: selftest: Adapt sock_fields test to use skel and 
>> global variables")
>> Fixes: 9a856cae2217 ("bpf: selftest: Add test_btf_skc_cls_ingress")
>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com>
>
> Thanks for the fix. Applied.

You're welcome! And thanks :)

> I wonder why we don't see it with different gcc and clang versions.

Yeah, I was wondering about that as well, actually...

> What linker do you use?
> And what kind of error do you see?

  BINARY   test_progs
/usr/bin/ld: 
/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sock_fields.test.o:/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sock_fields.c:39:
 multiple definition of `skel'; 
/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/btf_skc_cls_ingress.test.o:/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/btf_skc_cls_ingress.c:19:
 first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:397: 
/home/build/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs] Error 1

$  ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 10.2.0

-Toke

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