[PATCH 2/2] selftests: Fix runner.sh for non-bash shells
From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Apr 16 2026 - 15:07:11 EST
Commit 2964f6b816c2 ("selftests: Use ktap helpers for runner.sh") added a
number of bashisms and updated the interpreter specified for the script to
be /bin/bash to reflect this. Unfortunately this does not actually achieve
anything in production since the main way runner.sh is invoked is from the
top level run_kselftest.sh which sources it rather than running it as a
separate script and specifies the shell as /bin/sh. This means that on
systems where /bin/sh is not bash (such as Debian where /bin/sh defaults to
being dash) we see failures:
./run_kselftest.sh: 195: ./kselftest/runner.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")
These bashisms come from this part of the change:
4. In runner.sh run_one(), get the return value and use ktap helpers for
all pass/fail reporting. This allows counting pass/fail numbers in the
main process.
which uses a bash array to track all the subtests being run. Convert this
to use a simple flat variable instead.
Fixes: 2964f6b816c2 ("selftests: Use ktap helpers for runner.sh")
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
index 4dfc4271e4ec..50919ce206f3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Runs a set of tests in a given subdirectory.
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ run_many()
DIR="${PWD#${BASE_DIR}/}"
test_num=0
local rc
- pids=()
+ pids=
for TEST in "$@"; do
BASENAME_TEST=$(basename $TEST)
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ run_many()
fi
if [ -n "$RUN_IN_NETNS" ]; then
run_in_netns &
- pids+=($!)
+ pids="$pids $!"
else
run_one "$DIR" "$TEST" "$test_num"
fi
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ run_many()
# These variables are outputs of ktap_helpers.sh but since we've
# run the test in a subprocess we need to update them manually
- for pid in "${pids[@]}"; do
+ for pid in $pids; do
wait "$pid"
rc=$?
case "$rc" in
--
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