On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:19 AM Daniel Latypov dlatypov@google.com wrote:
This test assumes that the declared kunit_suite object is the exact one which is being executed, which KUnit will not guarantee [1].
Specifically, `suite->log` is not initialized until a suite object is executed. So if KUnit makes a copy of the suite and runs that instead, this test dereferences an invalid pointer and (hopefully) segfaults.
N.B. since we no longer assume this, we can no longer verify that `suite->log` is *not* allocated during normal execution.
An alternative to this patch that would allow us to test that would require exposing an API for the current test to get its current suite. Exposing that for one internal kunit test seems like overkill, and grants users more footguns (e.g. reusing a test case in multiple suites and changing behavior based on the suite name, dynamically modifying the setup/cleanup funcs, storing/reading stuff out of the suite->log, etc.).
[1] In a subsequent patch, KUnit will allow running subsets of test cases within a suite by making a copy of the suite w/ the filtered test list. But there are other reasons KUnit might execute a copy, e.g. if it ever wants to support parallel execution of different suites, recovering from errors and restarting suites
Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov dlatypov@google.com
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins brendanhiggins@google.com