From 804490c3eb26098b60c5e858fa20c0e6f2c2c1d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:58:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tools build: Fix feature test for rust compiler

Currently a dummy rust code is compiled to detect if the rust feature
could be enabled. It turns out that in this case rust emits a dependency
file without any external references:

    /perf/feature/test-rust.d: test-rust.rs

    /perf/feature/test-rust.bin: test-rust.rs

    test-rust.rs:

This can lead to a situation, when rustc was removed after a successful build,
but the build process still thinks it's there and the feature is enabled on
subsequent runs.

Instead simply check the compiler presence to detect the feature, as
suggested by Arnaldo.

This way no actual test-rust.bin will be created, meaning the feature
check will not be cached and always performed. That's exactly what we
want, and the overhead of doing this every time is minimal.

Tested with multiple rounds of install/remove of the rust package.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/build/feature/Makefile     | 10 ++++++----
 tools/build/feature/test-rust.rs |  4 ----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-rust.rs

diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
index e959caa7f1c7..1fbcb3ce74d2 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
+++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ __BUILD = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MD -Wall -Werror -o $@ $(patsubst %.bin,%.c,$(@F)) $(
 __BUILDXX = $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -MD -Wall -Werror -o $@ $(patsubst %.bin,%.cpp,$(@F)) $(LDFLAGS)
   BUILDXX = $(__BUILDXX) > $(@:.bin=.make.output) 2>&1
 
-__BUILDRS = $(RUSTC) $(RUSTC_FLAGS) --emit=dep-info=$(patsubst %.bin,%.d,$(@F)),link -o $@ $(patsubst %.bin,%.rs,$(@F))
-  BUILDRS = $(__BUILDRS) > $(@:.bin=.make.output) 2>&1
-
 ###############################
 
 $(OUTPUT)test-all.bin:
@@ -393,8 +390,13 @@ $(OUTPUT)test-bpftool-skeletons.bin:
 	$(SYSTEM_BPFTOOL) version | grep '^features:.*skeletons' \
 		> $(@:.bin=.make.output) 2>&1
 
+# Testing Rust is special: we don't compile anything, it's enough to check the
+# compiler presence. Compiling a test code for this purposes is problematic,
+# because Rust will emit a dependency file without any external references,
+# meaning that if rustc will be removed the build process will still think it's
+# there.
 $(OUTPUT)test-rust.bin:
-	$(BUILDRS) > $(@:.bin=.make.output) 2>&1
+	$(RUSTC) --version > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 ###############################
 
diff --git a/tools/build/feature/test-rust.rs b/tools/build/feature/test-rust.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index f2fc91cc4f69..000000000000
--- a/tools/build/feature/test-rust.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-fn main() {
-    println!("hi")
-}