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12 days	check-uapi: link into shared objects	Arnd Bergmann	1	-2/+5
	commit a261f6dff3c1653c19c065c3b3650c625447b8a7 upstream. While testing ABI changes across all architectures, I found that abidiff sometimes produces nonsensical output. Further debugging identified missing or broken libelf support for architecture specific relocations in ET_REL binaries as the source of the problem[1]. Change the script to no longer produce a relocatable object file but instead create a shared library for each header. This makes abidiff work for all of the architectures in upstream linux kernels. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33869 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306163309.2015837-2-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-12-29	check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh	John Moon	1	-0/+573
	While the kernel community has been good at maintaining backwards compatibility with kernel UAPIs, it would be helpful to have a tool to check if a commit introduces changes that break backwards compatibility. To that end, introduce check-uapi.sh: a simple shell script that checks for changes to UAPI headers using libabigail. libabigail is "a framework which aims at helping developers and software distributors to spot some ABI-related issues like interface incompatibility in ELF shared libraries by performing a static analysis of the ELF binaries at hand." The script uses one of libabigail's tools, "abidiff", to compile the changed header before and after the commit to detect any changes. abidiff "compares the ABI of two shared libraries in ELF format. It emits a meaningful report describing the differences between the two ABIs." The script also includes the ability to check the compatibility of all UAPI headers across commits. This allows developers to inspect the stability of the UAPIs over time. Signed-off-by: John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>