From: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>

commit 1a3449c19407a28f7019a887cdf0d6ba2444751a upstream.

If Makefile cannot find any of the vmlinux's in its VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS list,
it tries to run btftool incorrectly, with VMLINUX_BTF unset:

    bpftool btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c

Such that the keyword 'format' is misinterpreted as the path to vmlinux.
The resulting build error message is fairly cryptic:

      GEN      vmlinux.h
    Error: failed to load BTF from format: No such file or directory

This patch makes the failure reason clearer by yielding this instead:

    Makefile:...: *** Cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of
    "{paths}".  Stop.

Fixes: acbd06206bbb ("selftests/bpf: Add vmlinux.h selftest exercising tracing 
of syscalls")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <and...@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201215182011.15755-1-ka...@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS ?= $(if $(O),$(O)/vmli
                     /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux                            \
                     /boot/vmlinux-$(shell uname -r)
 VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS))))
+ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),)
+$(error Cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)")
+endif
 
 DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(SCRATCH_DIR)/sbin/bpftool
 


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