Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] kunit: Add kunit_add_action() to defer a call until test exit

[Benjamin Berg]

Hi,

On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 15:32 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > +/**
> > + * kunit_add_action() - Defer an 'action' (function call) until the test ends.
> > + * @test: Test case to associate the action with.
> > + * @func: The function to run on test exit
> > + * @ctx: Data passed into @func
> > + * @internal_gfp: gfp to use for internal allocations, if unsure, use GFP_KERNEL
> > + *
> > + * Defer the execution of a function until the test exits, either normally or
> > + * due to a failure.  @ctx is passed as additional context. All functions
> > + * registered with kunit_add_action() will execute in the opposite order to that
> > + * they were registered in.
> > + *
> > + * This is useful for cleaning up allocated memory and resources.
> > + *
> > + * Returns:
> > + *   An opaque "cancellation token", or NULL on error. Pass this token to
> > + *   kunit_remove_action_token() in order to cancel the deferred execution of
> > + *   func().
> > + */
> > +struct kunit_action_ctx *kunit_add_action(struct kunit *test, kunit_defer_function_t func,
> > +                     void *ctx, gfp_t internal_gfp);
> 
> Do we expect any other context than GFP_KERNEL?
> 
> If so, then maybe we can have kunit_add_action() assume GFP_KERNEL and
> add a variant for the odd case where we would actually need a different
> GFP flag.

Does anything other than GFP_KERNEL make sense? I would assume these
functions should only ever be called from a kunit context, i.e. the
passed test is guaranteed to be identical to the value returned by
kunit_get_current_test().

That said, I am happy with merging this in this form. I feel the right
thing here is a patch (with corresponding spatch) that changes all of
the related APIs to remove the gfp argument.

> > +/**
> > + * kunit_remove_action_token() - Cancel a deferred action.
> > + * @test: Test case the action is associated with.
> > + * @cancel_token: The cancellation token returned by kunit_add_action()
> > + *
> > + * Prevent an action deferred using kunit_add_action() from executing when the
> > + * test ends.
> > + *
> > + * You can also use the (test, function, context) triplet to remove an action
> > + * with kunit_remove_action().
> > + */
> > +void kunit_remove_action_token(struct kunit *test, struct kunit_action_ctx *cancel_token);
> 
> It's not clear to me why we still need the token. If
> kunit_remove_action() works fine, why would we need to store the token?
> 
> Can't we just make kunit_add_action() return an int to indicate whether
> it failed or not, and that's it?
> 
> > [SNIP]
> 
> One thing worth pointing is that if kunit_add_action() fails, the
> cleanup function passed as an argument won't run.
> 
> So, if the kzalloc call ever fails, patch 2 will leak its res->data()
> resource for example.
> 
> devm (and drmm) handles this using a variant called
> devm_add_action_or_reset, we should either provide the same variant or
> just go for that behavior by default.

Both version of the function would need a return value. An alternative
might be to make assertions part of the API. But as with dropping the
gfp argument, that seems like a more intrusive change that needs to
happen independently.

Anyway, I am fine with action_or_reset as the default and possibly the
only behaviour. I expect that every API user will want an assertion
that checks for failure here anyway.

Benjamin


If kunit_* functions can assert in error conditions, then the example

void test_func(struct kunit *test)
{
  char u8 *buf = kunit_kzalloc(test, 1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  struct sk_buff *skb_a;
  struct sk_buff *skb_b;
  /* Further variables */

  KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, buf);

  skb_a = skb_alloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, skb_a);
  if (kunit_add_cleanup(test, (kunit_defer_function_t) kfree_skb, skb_a))
    KUNIT_ASSERT_FAILURE("Failed to add cleanup");

  /* Or, maybe: */
  skb_b = skb_alloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test, skb_b);
  KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, 0,
                  kunit_add_cleanup(test,
                                    (kunit_defer_function_t) kfree_skb,
                                    skb_b));

  /* run code that may assert */
}


could be shortened to (with a trivial kunit_skb_alloc helper)

void test_func(struct kunit *test)
{
  char u8 *buf = kunit_kzalloc(test, 1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  struct sk_buff *skb_a = kunit_skb_alloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  struct sk_buff *skb_b = kunit_skb_alloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
  /* Further variables */

  /* run code that may assert */
}

I should just post a patch for the existing API and see what people say
then ...