As describe in the help string, the user might want to disable these tests if they don't like to see stacktraces/BUG etc in their kernel log.
However, if they enable PANIC_ON_OOPS, these tests also crash the machine, which it's safe to assume _almost_ nobody wants.
One might argue that _absolutely_ nobody ever wants their kernel to crash so this should just be a hard dependency instead of a default. However, since this is rather special code that's anyway concerned with deliberately doing "bad" things, the normal rules don't seem to apply, hence prefer flexibility and allow users to set up a crashing Kconfig if they so choose.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman jackmanb@google.com --- lib/kunit/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/kunit/Kconfig b/lib/kunit/Kconfig index 50ecf55d2b9c8a82f2aff7a0b4156bd6179b0a2f..498cc51e493dc9a819e012b8082fb765f25512b9 100644 --- a/lib/kunit/Kconfig +++ b/lib/kunit/Kconfig @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ config KUNIT_FAULT_TEST bool "Enable KUnit tests which print BUG stacktraces" depends on KUNIT_TEST depends on !UML - default y + default !PANIC_ON_OOPS help Enables fault handling tests for the KUnit framework. These tests may trigger a kernel BUG(), and the associated stack trace, even when they
--- base-commit: 7bc16e72ddb993d706f698c2f6cee694e485f557 change-id: 20251207-kunit-fault-no-panic-e9bdce848031
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