Re: [RFC v4 08/17] kunit: test: add support for test abort

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 08:56:17 EST


On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:03:24AM -0800, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> you could do:
>
> if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ptr)) {
> KUNIT_FAIL(test, "ptr is an errno or null: %ld", ptr);
> return;
> }

It's best to not mix error pointers and NULL but when we do mix them,
it means that NULL is a special kind of success. Like we try to load
a feature and we get back:

valid pointer <-- success
null <-- feature is disabled. not an error.
error pointer <-- feature is broken. fail.

regards,
dan carpenter