[PATCH v2] selftests/harness: harness-selftest: cover XFAIL_ADD ctor ordering

From: Sun Jian

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 06:11:02 EST


Add a fixture-based test with a single variant and mark it with
XFAIL_ADD(). The test intentionally fails and is expected to be
accounted as XFAIL, covering the constructor ordering dependency
between TEST_F() registration and XFAIL_ADD() registration.

Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- update Suggested-by address
- update harness-selftest.expected
- verify with 'make run_tests'

.../kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.c | 23 ++++++++++
.../harness-selftest.expected | 43 +++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.c
index 7820bb5d0e6d..9920ef7e4385 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.c
@@ -118,6 +118,29 @@ TEST_F(fixture_setup_failure, pass) {
TH_LOG("after");
}

+FIXTURE(xfail_ctor_ordering) {
+};
+
+FIXTURE_SETUP(xfail_ctor_ordering) {
+}
+
+FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(xfail_ctor_ordering) {
+}
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT(xfail_ctor_ordering) {
+ int dummy;
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(xfail_ctor_ordering, only) {
+ .dummy = 0,
+};
+
+TEST_F(xfail_ctor_ordering, expected_fail) {
+ ASSERT_EQ(1, 0);
+}
+
+XFAIL_ADD(xfail_ctor_ordering, only, expected_fail);
+
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
/*
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.expected b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.expected
index 97e1418c1c7e..e0088c9e07b2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.expected
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness/harness-selftest.expected
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
TAP version 13
-1..9
-# Starting 9 tests from 4 test cases.
+1..10
+# Starting 10 tests from 5 test cases.
# RUN global.standalone_pass ...
# harness-selftest.c:19:standalone_pass:before
# harness-selftest.c:23:standalone_pass:after
@@ -24,15 +24,12 @@ ok 3 global.signal_pass
# signal_fail: Test terminated by assertion
# FAIL global.signal_fail
not ok 4 global.signal_fail
-# RUN fixture.pass ...
-# harness-selftest.c:53:pass:setup
-# harness-selftest.c:62:pass:before
-# harness-selftest.c:19:pass:before
-# harness-selftest.c:23:pass:after
-# harness-selftest.c:66:pass:after
-# harness-selftest.c:58:pass:teardown same-process=1
-# OK fixture.pass
-ok 5 fixture.pass
+# RUN fixture.timeout ...
+# harness-selftest.c:53:timeout:setup
+# harness-selftest.c:77:timeout:before
+# timeout: Test terminated by timeout
+# FAIL fixture.timeout
+not ok 5 fixture.timeout
# RUN fixture.fail ...
# harness-selftest.c:53:fail:setup
# harness-selftest.c:70:fail:before
@@ -41,12 +38,15 @@ ok 5 fixture.pass
# fail: Test terminated by assertion
# FAIL fixture.fail
not ok 6 fixture.fail
-# RUN fixture.timeout ...
-# harness-selftest.c:53:timeout:setup
-# harness-selftest.c:77:timeout:before
-# timeout: Test terminated by timeout
-# FAIL fixture.timeout
-not ok 7 fixture.timeout
+# RUN fixture.pass ...
+# harness-selftest.c:53:pass:setup
+# harness-selftest.c:62:pass:before
+# harness-selftest.c:19:pass:before
+# harness-selftest.c:23:pass:after
+# harness-selftest.c:66:pass:after
+# harness-selftest.c:58:pass:teardown same-process=1
+# OK fixture.pass
+ok 7 fixture.pass
# RUN fixture_parent.pass ...
# harness-selftest.c:87:pass:setup
# harness-selftest.c:96:pass:before
@@ -60,5 +60,10 @@ ok 8 fixture_parent.pass
# pass: Test terminated by assertion
# FAIL fixture_setup_failure.pass
not ok 9 fixture_setup_failure.pass
-# FAILED: 4 / 9 tests passed.
-# Totals: pass:4 fail:5 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
+# RUN xfail_ctor_ordering.only.expected_fail ...
+# harness-selftest.c:139:expected_fail:Expected 1 (1) == 0 (0)
+# expected_fail: Test terminated by assertion
+# FAIL xfail_ctor_ordering.only.expected_fail
+ok 10 xfail_ctor_ordering.only.expected_fail # XFAIL unknown
+# FAILED: 5 / 10 tests passed.
+# Totals: pass:4 fail:5 xfail:1 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

base-commit: 1f318b96cc84d7c2ab792fcc0bfd42a7ca890681
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2.43.0