From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" If dodie cause a function that itself will call dodie, then be able to handle that. This will allow dodie functions to call run_command, which could possibly call dodie. If dodie is called again, simply ignore it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl index 3400a23e6a41..ac6750bb5942 100755 --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl @@ -1433,7 +1433,14 @@ sub do_not_reboot { ($test_type eq "config_bisect" && $opt{"CONFIG_BISECT_TYPE[$i]"} eq "build"); } +my $in_die = 0; + sub dodie { + + # avoid recusion + return if ($in_die); + $in_die = 1; + doprint "CRITICAL FAILURE... ", @_, "\n"; my $i = $iteration; -- 2.16.3