[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test/utils: add more reliable "get remote address" approach

[Alan Maguire]

On 03/07/2025 19:26, Kris Van Hees wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 07:02:57PM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote:
>> On 03/07/2025 18:06, Eugene Loh wrote:
>>> On 7/3/25 12:59, Alan Maguire wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/07/2025 17:43, Eugene Loh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tested and it looks good (modulo the OL8 UEK6 issue mentioned in the
>>>>> patch 3/4 feedback).
>>>>>
>>>> Sorry I couldn't find that issue; is this the 5.15 problem with the ip
>>>> send probes?
>>>
>>>     dtrace: failed to compile script /dev/stdin:
>>>     ".../build/dlibs/5.2/tcp.d", line 177: failed to resolve type of
>>> inet_ntoa arg#1 (ipaddr_t *):
>>>     Unknown type name
>>>
>>
>> Ah, sorry yep I have a fix for that one in the next round. Basically we
>> need to add it to the core set of typedefs and add a type for a pointer
>> to ipaddr_t; we can't rely on the #pragma to include net.d unfortunately.
> 
> Why can't we rely on the pragma?  That is how e.g. the ip provider manages
> this I believe?
> 

Unfortunately the #pragma include doesn't do enough; it just defines a
type for ipaddr_t , not a type for a _pointer_ to an ipaddr_t , which is
what we need as a parameter to inet_ntoa(). I tried adding the ipaddr_t
typedef to net.d and doing the pointer lookup/addition but that doesn't
work either. Seems we need the core typedef + pointer addition or we hit
this failure.


> I'd really rather not add a type like this to the core set of typedefs we
> can avoid it, because it really isn't a core type.
>

I can't see another way round this currently unfortunately.

Alan