linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] kunit: Move kunit_abort() call out of kunit_do_failed

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Message-ID: <1dd943e3-cf3c-4928-8464-b02795092bc0@kili.mountain>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2023 11:01:49 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>,
        Rae Moar <rmoar@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kunit: Move kunit_abort() call out of
 kunit_do_failed_assertion()

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 03:53:54PM +0800, David Gow wrote:
> KUnit aborts the current thread when an assertion fails. Currently, this
> is done conditionally as part of the kunit_do_failed_assertion()
> function, but this hides the kunit_abort() call from the compiler
> (particularly if it's in another module). This, in turn, can lead to
> both suboptimal code generation (the compiler can't know if
> kunit_do_failed_assertion() will return), and to static analysis tools
> like smatch giving false positives.
> 
> Moving the kunit_abort() call into the macro should give the compiler
> and tools a better chance at understanding what's going on. Doing so
> requires exporting kunit_abort(), though it's recommended to continue to
> use assertions in lieu of aborting directly.
> 
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>

Awesome thanks!  I had already hardcoded the current behavior but I'm
happy to delete that code.  This works automatically and will continue
to work if we change the parameters to kunit_do_failed_assertion() in
the future.

regards,
dan carpenter