Re: [PATCH 4/7] kselftest/arm64: keep building and installing after a subdirectory fails

[Sasha Levin]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>Sashiko had a comment about breakage ARM64_SUBTARGETS is empty. I think
>it's a false positive but I didn't check.

It is a false positive. With ARM64_SUBTARGETS empty the loop expands to
"for DIR in ; do ... done", which POSIX allows: the word list after "in"
may be empty, so the body never runs. The $(if) sets ret to 0 for that
case, so the target succeeds.

I ran the patched Makefile with ARCH=x86_64 for all, install and
emit_tests under bash, dash and busybox sh, with and without
FORCE_TARGETS=1. Every combination exits 0 with no output.

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Thanks,
Sasha