Re: [PATCH] kunit: bail out of test filtering logic quicker if OOM

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:22 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When filtering what tests to run (suites and/or cases) via
> kunit.filter_glob (e.g. kunit.py run <glob>), we allocate copies of
> suites.
>
> These allocations can fail, and we largely don't handle that.
> Note: realistically, this probably doesn't matter much.
> We're not allocating much memory and this happens early in boot, so if
> we can't do that, then there's likely far bigger problems.
>
> This patch makes us immediately bail out from the top-level function
> (kunit_filter_suites) with -ENOMEM if any of the underlying kmalloc()
> calls return NULL.
>
> Implementation note: we used to return NULL pointers from some functions
> to indicate either that all suites/tests were filtered out or there was
> an error allocating the new array.
>
> We'll log a short error in this case and not run any tests or print a
> TAP header. From a kunit.py user's perspective, they'll get a message
> about missing/invalid TAP output and have to dig into the test.log to
> see it. Since hitting this error seems so unlikely, it's probably fine
> to not invent a way to plumb this error message more visibly.
>
> See also: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20220329103919.2376818-1-lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Oh, I just realized the typo here.
This was meant to be a second "Reported-by:"

Let me sound out a v2 to fix that.



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