Re: [PATCH RESEND 6.6.y] kselftest: Add a ksft_perror() helper

Greg KH
2024-05-23T11:28:17Z

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 05:56:28PM +0000, Edward Liaw wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
>
> [ Upstream commit 907f33028871fa7c9a3db1efd467b78ef82cce20 ]
>
> The standard library perror() function provides a convenient way to print
> an error message based on the current errno but this doesn't play nicely
> with KTAP output. Provide a helper which does an equivalent thing in a KTAP
> compatible format.
>
> nolibc doesn't have a strerror() and adding the table of strings required
> doesn't seem like a good fit for what it's trying to do so when we're using
> that only print the errno.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> Stable-dep-of: 071af0c9e582 ("selftests: timers: Convert posix_timers test to generate KTAP output")
> Signed-off-by: Edward Liaw <edliaw@google.com>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kselftest.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h