netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] selftests/vsock: reuse logic for vsock

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Message-ID: <20251027162244.0101a099@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:22:44 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...il.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Stefano Garzarella
 <sgarzare@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bobby
 Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] selftests/vsock: reuse logic for
 vsock_test through wrapper functions

On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:08:48 -0700 Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > > shellcheck has some (new) things to say about this patch too.
> > > Could you take a look over them?
> 
> It looks like the errors are SC2317 and SC2119, but are false-positives.
> Invoking a program as a variable (e.g., "${VSOCK_TEST}") is tripping
> SC2317 (command unreachable), and SC2119 is due to log_{guest,host}()
> being passed zero arguments (logging its stdin instead).
> 
> I also see that SC2317 has many other false positives elsewhere in the
> file (80+), reporting even lines like `rm "${QEMU_PIDFILE}"` as
> unreachable. I wonder if we should add a patch to this series to disable
> this check at the file-level?

Yes, FWIW, don't hesitate to disable things at the file level.
We should probably revisit which of the checks need to be disabled
globally. But file level is also useful for manual testing.