Re: [PATCH] kfence: test: fail fast if disabled at boot

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 06:58:29 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:55 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fail kfence_test fast if KFENCE was disabled at boot, instead of each
> test case trying several seconds to allocate from KFENCE and failing.
> KUnit will fail all test cases if kunit_suite::init returns an error.
>
> Even if KFENCE was disabled, we still want the test to fail, so that CI
> systems that parse KUnit output will alert on KFENCE being disabled
> (accidentally or otherwise).
>
> Reported-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
> mm/kfence/kfence_test.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
> index eb6307c199ea..f1690cf54199 100644
> --- a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
> +++ b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
> @@ -800,6 +800,9 @@ static int test_init(struct kunit *test)
> unsigned long flags;
> int i;
>
> + if (!__kfence_pool)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> spin_lock_irqsave(&observed.lock, flags);
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(observed.lines); i++)
> observed.lines[i][0] = '\0';
> --
> 2.33.0.rc2.250.ged5fa647cd-goog
>


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