From: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Silence spurious warnings and crashes from kunit test suites
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 05:04:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514050455.2954509-1-justin.he@arm.com> (raw)
Running the full kunit suite on arm64 (128-core Neoverse N2) with 7.1-rc3+
produces a handful of backtraces that are not real kernel bugs but
rather test-infrastructure issues: races with boot-time code, missing
bounds checks, resource leaks, and sysfs duplicate-name splats.
This series fixes them one by one so that a clean kunit run no longer
leaves noise in dmesg:
1. init/initramfs_test races with the async rootfs unpacker; add
wait_for_initramfs() in suite .init.
2. kfence kunit cases fail outright when the pool is unavailable;
skip them instead.
3. intlog2(0) / intlog10(0) hit a WARN_ON that is harmless; remove it.
4. kunit_platform_device_add() triggers sysfs_warn_dup() on the
duplicate-registration test; catch duplicates early in the kunit
helper (best-effort; final protection remains in driver core/sysfs).
5. misc_register() likewise hits sysfs_warn_dup(); reject duplicate
names explicitly. misc->name is never NULL at this point since the
existing code already dereferences it unconditionally.
6. hw_breakpoint test_many_cpus overflows its array on machines with
many cores; bail out at the limit.
7. test_ratelimit stress test checks the wrong variable for kthread
creation, leaks memory, and races on doneflag. Use goto-based
cleanup to guarantee all started threads are stopped on failure.
All patches are independent and can be applied/reviewed separately.
Tested on arm64 Neoverse N2 (128-core arm64) with
CONFIG_KUNIT=y and CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=y.
Jia He (7):
init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running
kfence: kunit: skip when no pool is available
lib/math/int_log: drop WARN_ON for value == 0
kunit: platform: catch duplicate (name, id) in kunit_platform_device_add()
misc: reject duplicate names in misc_register()
hw_breakpoint_test: fix test_many_cpus failure on large systems
lib/tests: test_ratelimit: fix stress test thread lifecycle and leak
drivers/char/misc.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++
init/initramfs_test.c | 17 +++++++++++++-
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint_test.c | 12 ++++++++++
lib/kunit/platform.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/math/int_log.c | 8 ++-----
lib/tests/test_ratelimit.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++-----
mm/kfence/kfence_test.c | 6 +++--
7 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-14 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-14 5:04 Jia He [this message]
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running Jia He
2026-05-14 5:58 ` David Disseldorp
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 2/7] kfence: kunit: skip when no pool is available Jia He
2026-05-14 7:54 ` Marco Elver
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 3/7] lib/math/int_log: drop WARN_ON for value == 0 Jia He
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 4/7] kunit: platform: catch duplicate (name, id) in kunit_platform_device_add() Jia He
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 5/7] misc: reject duplicate names in misc_register() Jia He
2026-05-14 7:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-05-14 7:25 ` Justin He
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 6/7] hw_breakpoint_test: fix test_many_cpus failure on large systems Jia He
2026-05-14 8:01 ` Marco Elver
2026-05-14 5:04 ` [PATCH 7/7] lib/tests: test_ratelimit: fix stress test thread lifecycle and leak Jia He
2026-05-14 7:02 ` [PATCH 0/7] Silence spurious warnings and crashes from kunit test suites Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-05-14 7:17 ` Justin He
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