From: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
To: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
KUnit Development <kunit-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v4] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:25:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd5g46BuY02M_QBD3PVFnbsvO7fuuS+ZOBmfFBmmGy3xSMXbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABVgOSkegmhmeRa=7Qcx3MnX88wLy9qZx97CMhk4NvWb-pgpYQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:13 PM David Gow <davidgow@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 1:27 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:55:49PM -0700, David Gow wrote:
> > > + list4 = kzalloc(sizeof(*list4), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, list4);
> >
> > Why not just use GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL and remove the check?
>
> I've sent a new version of the patch out (v5) which uses __GFP_NOFAIL instead.
>
> The idea had been to exercise KUnit's assertion functionality, in the
> hope that it'd allow the test to fail (but potentially allow other
> tests to still run) in the case of allocation failure. Given that
> we're only allocating enough to store ~4 pointers in total, though,
> that's probably of little use.
>
> > kzalloc() can't return error pointers. If this were an IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
> > check then it would generate a static checker warning, but static
> > checkers don't know about KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL() yet so you're
> > safe.
>
> Alas, KUnit doesn't have a KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL() macro, and I'd
> assumed it was not dangerous (even if not ideal) to check for error
> pointers, even if kzalloc() can't return them.
Maybe it would be good for us (not in this case, just generally
speaking) to add a KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL() and friends?
> Perhaps it'd make sense to add a convenient way of checking the
> NULL-ness of pointers to KUnit (it's possible with the
> KUNIT_ASSERT_PTR_EQ(), but requires a bit of casting to make the type
> checker happy) in the future. Once KUnit is properly upstream, it may
> be worth teaching the static analysis tools about these functions to
> avoid having warnings in these sorts of tests.
>
> For now, though, (and for this test in particular), I agree with the
> suggestion of just using __GFP_NOFAIL.
>
> Thanks a lot for the comments,
> -- David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 21:55 [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v4] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list David Gow
2019-10-19 8:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-22 22:13 ` David Gow
2019-10-23 21:25 ` Brendan Higgins [this message]
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