linux-stable.git/scripts/check-uapi.sh, branch v6.18.27 Linux kernel stable tree check-uapi: link into shared objects 2026-05-07T04:11:55+00:00 Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de 2026-03-06T16:33:07+00:00 ea43a34452a6a58507e42d7edfdfc4ae95744f9f 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> 
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>
check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh 2023-12-29T13:25:20+00:00 John Moon quic_johmoo@quicinc.com 2023-12-12T02:02:57+00:00 1f7f31bf7202adcab9616307bcb11a65fb565f63 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> 
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>