Guest assertions depend on successfully allocating a ucall structure. As such, the use of guest assertions when ucall_alloc() fails simply leads to an infinite loop in guest code. Use GUEST_UCALL_NONE() to indicate failure instead. Though not technically necessary, use a goto to have a single callsite and an associated comment about why assertions don't work here. It isn't perfect, at least the poor developer gets some signal out of the guest... Fixes: 426729b2cf2e ("KVM: selftests: Add ucall pool based implementation") Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c index 0cc0971ce60e..e8370da3de24 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ static struct ucall *ucall_alloc(void) struct ucall *uc; int i; - GUEST_ASSERT(ucall_pool); + if (!ucall_pool) + goto out; for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) { if (!test_and_set_bit(i, ucall_pool->in_use)) { @@ -51,7 +52,14 @@ static struct ucall *ucall_alloc(void) } } - GUEST_ASSERT(0); +out: + /* + * If the guest cannot grab a ucall structure from the pool then the + * only option to get out to userspace is a bare ucall. This is probably + * a good time to mention that guest assertions depend on ucalls with + * arguments too. + */ + GUEST_UCALL_NONE(); return NULL; } -- 2.39.0.rc1.256.g54fd8350bd-goog