Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/4] selftests/bpf: Replaces the usage of CHECK calls for ASSERTs in bpf_tcp_ca

Yonghong Song
2023-11-20T19:00:32Z

On 11/20/23 12:15 PM, Yuran Pereira wrote:
> Hello Yonghong,
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:22:59AM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote:
>>> - if (CHECK(!err || errno != ENOENT,
>>> - "bpf_map_lookup_elem(sk_stg_map)",
>>> - "err:%d errno:%d\n", err, errno))
>>> + if (!ASSERT_NEQ(err, 0, "bpf_map_lookup_elem(sk_stg_map)") ||
>> !ASSERT_ERR(err, "bpf_map_lookup_elem(sk_stg_map)")
>> might be simpler than !ASSERT_NEQ(..).
>>
> Sure, that makes sense. I'll change it in v3.
>>> - pthread_join(srv_thread, &thread_ret);
>>> - CHECK(IS_ERR(thread_ret), "pthread_join", "thread_ret:%ld",
>>> - PTR_ERR(thread_ret));
>>> + err = pthread_join(srv_thread, &thread_ret);
>>> + ASSERT_OK(err, "pthread_join");
>> The above is not equivalent to the original code.
>> The original didn't check pthread_join() return as it
>> is very very unlikely to fail. And check 'thread_ret'
>> is still needed.
>>
> Yes that is true, but the v1 [1] broke the tests because the
> ASSERT_OK_PTR(thread_ret, "pthread_join") kept failing, even
> though all the asserts within the `server()` function itself
> passed.
>
> Also, isn't asserting `thread_ret` technically checking the
> `server()` function instead of `pthread_join`? So should we
> have two asserts here? One for `server` and one for `pthread_join`
> or is it not necessary?
> i.e:
> ```
> ASSERT_OK_PTR(thread_ret, "server");
> ASSERT_OK(err, "pthread_join");
> ```

As I mentioned, checking return value of pthread_join()
is not critical as in general pthread_join() not fail.
The test is not to test pthread_join() and if pthread_join()
fails it would be an even bigger problem affecting many other
tests.

>
> Upon taking a second look, I now think that the reason why
> `ASSERT_OK_PTR(thread_ret, "pthread_join");` failed in v1 might
> have been because it calls `libbpf_get_error` which returns
> `-errno` when the pointer is `NULL`.
>
> Since `server`'s return value is not a bpf address, which
> `ASSERT_OK_PTR` expects it to be, do you that think we should
> explicitly set `errno = 0` prior to returning NULL on server?
> That way that assert would pass even when the pointer is NULL
> (which is the case when `server` returns successfuly).

Let us just do

ASSERT_OK(IS_ERR(thread_ret), "thread_ret")

>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/GV1PR10MB6563A0BE91080E6E8EC2651DE8B0A@GV1PR10MB6563.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
>
> As always, thank you for your feedback.
>
> Yuran Pereira
>