On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 01:08:07PM -0500, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, we already run clang-tidy tests ('make clang-tidy') as part
> > of our tests (test/build/static_checkers.sh).
> >
> > Would it be just a matter of enabling the misc-include-cleaner in the
> > list of tests we give clang-tidy from the Makefile:
> >
> >   https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/misc/include-cleaner.html
> >
> > ? I haven't tried.
> >
> 
> It appears so, a local change to pass -checks=misc-include-cleaner to
> clang-tidy resulted in a ton of errors like:
> /usr/local/google/home/pefoley/passt/vu_common.c:277:2: error: no header
> providing "iov_from_buf" is directly included
> [misc-include-cleaner,-warnings-as-errors]
>   277 |         iov_from_buf(in_sg, elem_cnt, VNET_HLEN, buf, total);
>       |         ^
> /usr/local/google/home/pefoley/passt/vu_common.c:301:15: error: no header
> providing "ETH_ZLEN" is directly included
> [misc-include-cleaner,-warnings-as-errors]
>     9 |         if (l2len >= ETH_ZLEN)
>       |                      ^
> /usr/local/google/home/pefoley/passt/vu_common.c:304:2: error: no header
> providing "memset" is directly included
> [misc-include-cleaner,-warnings-as-errors]
>     9 |         memset((char *)iov->iov_base + iov->iov_len, 0, ETH_ZLEN -
> l2len);

Unfortunately, I suspect this isn't going to work out.  It may do some
of the checks we want here, but unfortunately it makes some very silly
warnings in relation to the standard library, which is why we disabled
it in the first place.  See commit
3be9e0010ea7329ae0f3707f67ac4cf0bac13d54

I guess we should retry and see if the latest LLVM is better about
this, though.

> 
> 
> >
> > > If you want, I can fold the two "include fixing" commits together and
> > > re-send.
> >
> > Yes, thanks, that would be appreciated. I would first try to settle on
> > a convenient way to keep Blaze/Bazel happy for the future, though.
> >
> 
> As I mentioned earlies, Bazel appears to be happy withough the include
> fixes, it's just Google's internal Blaze varient that has some kind of
> stricter checking that falls over.
> I can send the change out for supporting the Bazel build, but I think using
> misc-include-cleaner would be a better plan.
> 
> 
> >
> > --
> > Stefano
> >
> >

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