[PATCH 03/11] kasan: clean up comments in tests

Alexander Potapenko glider at google.com
Tue Jan 12 02:53:22 EST 2021


On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
>
> Clarify and update comments and info messages in KASAN tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I6c816c51fa1e0eb7aa3dead6bda1f339d2af46c8


>  void *kasan_ptr_result;
>  int kasan_int_result;
Shouldn't these two variables be static, by the way?
>
> @@ -39,14 +38,13 @@ static struct kunit_resource resource;
>  static struct kunit_kasan_expectation fail_data;
>  static bool multishot;
>
> +/*
> + * Temporarily enable multi-shot mode. Otherwise, KASAN would only report the
> + * first detected bug and panic the kernel if panic_on_warn is enabled.
> + */

YMMV, but I think this comment was at its place already.

>  static int kasan_test_init(struct kunit *test)
>  {
> -       /*
> -        * Temporarily enable multi-shot mode and set panic_on_warn=0.
> -        * Otherwise, we'd only get a report for the first case.
> -        */
>         multishot = kasan_save_enable_multi_shot();

Unrelated to this change, but have you considered storing
test-specific data in test->priv instead of globals?

>         if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB)) {
> -               kunit_info(test, "CONFIG_SLUB is not enabled.");
> +               kunit_info(test, "skipping, CONFIG_SLUB required");
>                 return;
>         }

You may want to introduce a macro that takes a config name and prints
the warning/returns if it's not enabled.

Alex



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