[PATCH v1 5/8] kunit: Handle test faults

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> Previously, when a kernel test thread crashed (e.g. NULL pointer
> dereference, general protection fault), the KUnit test hanged for 30
> seconds and exited with a timeout error.
> 
> Fix this issue by waiting on task_struct->vfork_done instead of the
> custom kunit_try_catch.try_completion, and track the execution state by
> initially setting try_result with -EFAULT and only setting it to 0 if
> the test passed.
> 
> Fix kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter() signature by returning 0
> instead of calling kthread_complete_and_exit().  Because thread's exit
> code is never checked, always set it to 0 to make it clear.
> 
> Fix the -EINTR error message, which couldn't be reached until now.
> 
> This is tested with a following patch.
> 
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins at google.com>
> Cc: David Gow <davidgow at google.com>
> Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar at google.com>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net>

I assume we can start checking for "intentional" faults now?

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

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Kees Cook