Re: [PATCH v4 12/15] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework

From: Benjamin Berg
Date: Thu Jun 26 2025 - 14:11:57 EST


Hi Thomas,

I ran into two minor issues trying out the patches, see inline.

On Thu, 2025-06-26 at 08:10 +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Enable running UAPI tests as part of kunit.
> The selftests are embedded into the kernel image and their output is
> forwarded to kunit for unified reporting.
>
> The implementation reuses parts of usermode drivers and usermode
> helpers. However these frameworks are not used directly as they make it
> impossible to retrieve a thread's exit code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [SNIP]
> +/**
> + * KUNIT_UAPI_EMBED_BLOB() - Embed another build artifact into the kernel
> + * @_name: The name of symbol under which the artifact is embedded.
> + * @_path: Path to the artifact on disk.
> + *
> + * Embeds a build artifact like a userspace executable into the kernel or current module.
> + * The build artifact is read from disk and needs to be already built.
> + */
> +#define KUNIT_UAPI_EMBED_BLOB(_name, _path) \
> + asm ( \
> + " .pushsection .rodata, \"a\" \n" \
> + " .global " __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _data)) " \n" \
> + __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _data)) ": \n" \
> + " .incbin " __stringify(_path) " \n" \
> + " .size " __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _data)) ", " \
> + ". - " __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _data)) " \n" \
> + " .global " __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _end)) " \n" \
> + __stringify(CONCATENATE(_name, _end)) ": \n" \
> + " .popsection \n" \
> + ); \
> + \
> + extern const char CONCATENATE(_name, _data)[]; \
> + extern const char CONCATENATE(_name, _end)[]; \
> + \
> + static const struct kunit_uapi_blob _name = { \
> + .path = _path, \
> + .data = CONCATENATE(_name, _data), \
> + .end = CONCATENATE(_name, _end), \
> + } \

For me, the compiler could not find the files for the ".incbin" unless
I added an include path. i.e. adding
ccflags-y := -I$(obj)
to lib/kunit/Makefile fixed the problem for me.

> [SNIP]
> +static int kunit_uapi_run_executable_in_mount(struct kunit *test, const char *executable,
> +    struct vfsmount *mnt)
> +{
> + struct kunit_uapi_user_mode_thread_ctx ctx = {
> + .setup_done = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(ctx.setup_done),
> + .executable = executable,
> + .pwd = {
> + .mnt = mnt,
> + .dentry = mnt->mnt_root,
> + },
> + };
> + int forward_err, wait_err, ret;

ret needs to be initialized to zero here as the kernel_wait function
will only set "ret" if wo.wo_stat is non-zero.

Benjamin

> [SNIP]