linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/14] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces

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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:00:58 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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	Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>,
	Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning
 backtraces

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 10:02:56AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Some unit tests intentionally trigger warning backtraces by passing
> bad parameters to API functions. Such unit tests typically check the
> return value from those calls, not the existence of the warning backtrace.
> 
> Such intentionally generated warning backtraces are neither desirable
> nor useful for a number of reasons.
> - They can result in overlooked real problems.
> - A warning that suddenly starts to show up in unit tests needs to be
>   investigated and has to be marked to be ignored, for example by
>   adjusting filter scripts. Such filters are ad-hoc because there is
>   no real standard format for warnings. On top of that, such filter
>   scripts would require constant maintenance.
> 
> One option to address problem would be to add messages such as "expected
> warning backtraces start / end here" to the kernel log.  However, that
> would again require filter scripts, it might result in missing real
> problematic warning backtraces triggered while the test is running, and
> the irrelevant backtrace(s) would still clog the kernel log.
> 
> Solve the problem by providing a means to identify and suppress specific
> warning backtraces while executing test code.
> 
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
> Cc: Daniel Diaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>
> Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Yup, this looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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Kees Cook