Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:42 AM John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---
>     - Refactored to exclusively check headers installed by make
>       headers_install. This simplified the code dramatically and removed
>       the need to perform complex git diffs.
>     - Removed the "-m" flag. Since we're checking all installed headers
>       every time, a flag to check only modified files didn't make sense.
>     - Added info message when usr/include/Makefile is not present that
>       it's likely because that file was only introduced in v5.3.
>     - Changed default behavior of log file. Now, the script will not
>       create a log file unless you pass "-l <file>".
>     - Simplified exit handler.
>     - Added -j $MAX_THREADS to make headers_install to improve speed.
>     - Cleaned up variable references.
>
>  scripts/check-uapi.sh | 488 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 488 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/check-uapi.sh
>

> +
> +# Save the current git tree state, stashing if needed
> +save_tree_state() {
> +       printf "Saving current tree state... "
> +       current_ref="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
> +       readonly current_ref
> +       if tree_is_dirty; then
> +               unstash="true"
> +               git stash push --quiet
> +       fi
> +       printf "OK\n"
> +}
> +
> +# Restore the git tree state, unstashing if needed
> +restore_tree_state() {
> +       if [ -z "$current_ref" ]; then
> +               return 0
> +       fi
> +
> +       printf "Restoring current tree state... "
> +       git checkout --quiet "$current_ref"


This does not restore the original state.

I was on a branch before running this script.
After everything is finished, I am on a detached commit
because $current_ref is not a branch.






> +       if ! do_compile "$(get_header_tree "$past_ref")/include" "$past_header" "${past_header}.bin" 2> "$log"; then
> +               eprintf "error - couldn't compile version of UAPI header %s at %s\n" "$file" "$past_ref"
> +               cat "$log" >&2
> +               exit "$FAIL_COMPILE"
> +       fi
> +
> +       "$ABIDIFF" --non-reachable-types "${past_header}.bin" "${base_header}.bin" > "$log" && ret="$?" || ret="$?"


[bikeshed] I might want to write like this:

   ret=0
   "$ABIDIFF" --non-reachable-types "${past_header}.bin"
"${base_header}.bin" > "$log" || ret="$?"







> +
> +
> +       if [ "$quiet" = "true" ]; then
> +               run "$base_ref" "$past_ref" "$abi_error_log" "$@" > /dev/null
> +       else
> +               run "$base_ref" "$past_ref" "$abi_error_log" "$@"
> +       fi



    if [ "$quiet" = "true" ]; then
            exec > /dev/null
    fi

    run "$base_ref" "$past_ref" "$abi_error_log" "$@"



is more elegant because this is the last line of main()
and exit_handler() does not print anything.






-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada