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From: Malte Wechter <maltewechter@gmail.com>
To: "Brendan Higgins" <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>,
	"David Gow" <david@davidgow.net>,
	"Rae Moar" <raemoar63@gmail.com>,
	"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
	"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
	"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
	"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
	"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
	"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	 workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	 Malte Wechter <maltewechter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] kunit: add assertions for lockdep inside of kunit
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:22:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013-lockdep-kunit-v3-2-cdb8ff720c1f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261013-lockdep-kunit-v3-0-cdb8ff720c1f@gmail.com>

assert that `debug_locks` are on prior to running a kunit testcase and
assert that `debug_locks` has not been turned off while the test has run.
The assertions are gated behind `CONFIG_KUNIT_FAIL_TEST_ON_LOCKDEP=y`,
if it is not enabled, writing and running kunit test cases that trigger
a lockdep warning does _not_ fail the test if the test itself passes.
If enabled, it marks any test that triggers a lockdep warning as failed,
and forcefully skips all proceeding test cases, implying that the kernel
is now seen as unreliable since `debug_locks` are off. Failing a test
when lockdep reports a problem is useful for any unit test that takes
locks, locking bugs are caught by the test that triggered them,
instead of being silently logged and missed.

Signed-off-by: Malte Wechter <maltewechter@gmail.com>
---
 lib/kunit/test.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
index 0e3ed457daca..1292a0799c33 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/test.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  * Author: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
  */
 
+#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
 #include <kunit/resource.h>
 #include <kunit/test.h>
 #include <kunit/test-bug.h>
@@ -80,6 +81,29 @@ void __printf(3, 4) __kunit_fail_current_test_impl(const char *file, int line, c
 	kunit_kfree(current->kunit_test, buffer);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Fails current test if test turns off debug_locks.
+ */
+static void kunit_check_lockdep(struct kunit *test, int prev_debug_locks)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KUNIT_FAIL_TEST_ON_LOCKDEP) && !debug_locks && prev_debug_locks) {
+		kunit_err(test, "Test triggered a lockdep warning");
+		kunit_set_failure(test);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Skip a KUnit test if debug_locks is turned off by lockdep.
+ */
+static void kunit_skip_if_lockdep(struct kunit *test, struct kunit_suite *suite)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KUNIT_FAIL_TEST_ON_LOCKDEP) && !debug_locks) {
+		suite->forced_skip = true;
+		test->forced_skip = true;
+		kunit_skip(test, "force skip: debug_locks are off");
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Enable KUnit tests to run.
  */
@@ -462,6 +486,8 @@ static void kunit_run_case_internal(struct kunit *test,
 {
 	struct timespec64 start, end;
 
+	kunit_skip_if_lockdep(test, suite);
+
 	if (suite->init) {
 		int ret;
 
@@ -512,6 +538,7 @@ static void kunit_try_run_case(void *data)
 	struct kunit *test = ctx->test;
 	struct kunit_suite *suite = ctx->suite;
 	struct kunit_case *test_case = ctx->test_case;
+	int debug_locks_snapshot = debug_locks;
 
 	current->kunit_test = test;
 
@@ -521,6 +548,8 @@ static void kunit_try_run_case(void *data)
 	 * thread will resume control and handle any necessary clean up.
 	 */
 	kunit_run_case_internal(test, suite, test_case);
+
+	kunit_check_lockdep(test, debug_locks_snapshot);
 }
 
 static void kunit_try_run_case_cleanup(void *data)

-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-13 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-13 10:22 [PATCH v3 0/4] kunit: add optional assertions to catch taint and lockdep warnings Malte Wechter
2026-10-13 10:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] kunit: add logic for tracking forcefully skipped test cases/suites Malte Wechter
2026-10-13 10:22 ` Malte Wechter [this message]
2026-10-13 10:22 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] kunit: add assertions for TAINT_WARN inside of kunit Malte Wechter
2026-10-13 10:22 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: kunit: add documentation and examples to kunit documentation Malte Wechter

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