Re: [PATCH] selftests: kselftest.h: mark functions with 'noreturn'

[Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 23:04, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 at 00:08, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:19 AM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/29/21 5:43 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> > > > When building kselftests/capabilities the following warning shows up:
> > > >
> > > > clang -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -Wall    test_execve.c -lcap-ng -lrt -ldl -o test_execve
> > > > test_execve.c:121:13: warning: variable 'have_outer_privilege' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> > > >          } else if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0) {
> > > >                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > test_execve.c:136:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> > > >          return have_outer_privilege;
> > > >                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > test_execve.c:121:9: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
> > > >          } else if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0) {
> > > >                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > test_execve.c:94:27: note: initialize the variable 'have_outer_privilege' to silence this warning
> > > >          bool have_outer_privilege;
> > > >                                   ^
> > > >                                    = false
> > > >
> > > > Rework so all the ksft_exit_*() functions have attribue
> > > > '__attribute__((noreturn))' so the compiler knows that there wont be
> > > > any return from the function. That said, without
> > > > '__attribute__((noreturn))' the compiler warns about the above issue
> > > > since it thinks that it will get back from the ksft_exit_skip()
> > > > function, which it wont.
> > > > Cleaning up the callers that rely on ksft_exit_*() return code, since
> > > > the functions ksft_exit_*() have never returned anything.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > Lot of changes to fix this warning. Is this necessary? I would
> > > like to explore if there is an easier and localized change that
> > > can fix the problem.
> >
> > via `man 3 exit`:
> > ```
> > The  exit() function causes normal process termination ...
> > ...
> > RETURN VALUE
> >        The exit() function does not return.
> > ```
> > so seeing `ksft_exit_pass`, `ksft_exit_fail`, `ksft_exit_fail_msg`,
> > `ksft_exit_xfail`, `ksft_exit_xpass`, and `ksft_exit_skip` all
> > unconditional call `exit` yet return an `int` looks wrong to me on
> > first glance. So on that point this patch and its resulting diffstat
> > LGTM.
>
> I'll respin the patch with these changes only.
>
> >
> > That said, there are many changes that explicitly call `ksft_exit`
> > with an expression; are those setting the correct exit code? Note that
> > ksft_exit_pass is calling exit with KSFT_PASS which is 0.  So some of
> > the negations don't look quite correct to me.  For example:
> >
> > -       return !ksft_get_fail_cnt() ? ksft_exit_pass() : ksft_exit_fail();
> > +       ksft_exit(!ksft_get_fail_cnt());
> >
> > so if ksft_get_fail_cnt() returns 0, then we were calling
> > ksft_exit_pass() which exited with 0. Now we'd be exiting with 1?
>
> oh, right, thank you for your review.
> I will drop all the 'ksft_exit()' changes, they should be fixed and go
> in as separete patches.

tools/testing/selftests/vm/memfd_secret.c has the
'ksft_exit(!ksft_get_fail_cnt())'
statement and when I looked at it it when I did this patch it looked correct.
However, when I look at it now I get a bit confused how ksft_exit() can be used
with ksft_get_fail_cnt(). @Mike can you please clarify the
'ksft_exit(!ksft_get_fail_cnt())' instance in
tools/testing/selftests/vm/memfd_secret.c.

Cheers,
Anders