Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] kallsyms: add KUnit tests for lineinfo feature
From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Date: 2026-07-06 14:45:12
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 4 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] Test failures on architectures using function descriptors
- [Medium] Silently failing tests due to missing Kconfig dependency for module lineinfo
- [Medium] Test flakiness due to incorrect assumption about compiler optimization and function size
- [Medium] Missing NULL pointer check for test buffer allocation leading to potential kernel panic
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commit 799168a56f108698328a395b2e257d42cad0b5d4
Author: Sasha Levin [off-list ref]
kallsyms: add KUnit tests for lineinfo feature
Add a KUnit test module (CONFIG_LINEINFO_KUNIT_TEST) that verifies the
kallsyms lineinfo feature produces correct source file:line annotations
in stack traces.
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1244dcac2294a..257b5ca442f32 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
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@@ -3092,6 +3092,16 @@ config LONGEST_SYM_KUNIT_TEST If unsure, say N. +config LINEINFO_KUNIT_TEST + tristate "KUnit tests for kallsyms lineinfo" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS + depends on KUNIT && KALLSYMS_LINEINFO
[Severity: Medium] If this test is built as a loadable module and CONFIG_KALLSYMS_LINEINFO_MODULES is disabled, will the module lineinfo tests fail at runtime? Should this Kconfig also depend on KALLSYMS_LINEINFO_MODULES when built as a module, or should the test suite gracefully skip module-specific tests if that configuration is not enabled?
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diff --git a/lib/tests/lineinfo_kunit.c b/lib/tests/lineinfo_kunit.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..285d798cb6a3c --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/tests/lineinfo_kunit.c
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+static char *alloc_sym_buf(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ return kunit_kzalloc(test, KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+}[Severity: Medium] Can kunit_kzalloc() return NULL here and cause a kernel panic when callers unconditionally pass the buffer to sprint_with_lineinfo()? Would it be better to add a KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL() check here or validate the return value in the callers? [ ... ]
+static noinline int lineinfo_target_many_lines(void)
+{
+ int a = 0;
+
+ barrier();
+ a += 1;
+ a += 2;[ ... ]
+ a += 10; + barrier(); + return a; +}
[Severity: Medium] Is it possible that standard compiler optimizations will fold the arithmetic in this function away, causing it to compile to fewer than 8 bytes? If that happens, wouldn't the test_many_lines_mid_function() test below fail because it adds 8 bytes to the start address and ends up looking outside the function bounds? Should WRITE_ONCE() or inline assembly be used here to prevent the arithmetic from being optimized out? [ ... ]
+static void test_normal_function(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ char *buf = alloc_sym_buf(test);
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)lineinfo_target_normal;[Severity: Medium] On architectures that use function descriptors (like PowerPC ELFv1 or ia64), will casting lineinfo_target_normal directly to unsigned long yield a data descriptor address instead of the instruction pointer? Could this cause sprint_backtrace() to fail to resolve the symbol, breaking the tests unconditionally on those architectures? Does this require using dereference_symbol_descriptor() to get the actual instruction pointer? [ ... ]
+static void test_pBb_format(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ char *buf = alloc_sym_buf(test);
+ /*
+ * %pBb uses sprint_backtrace_build_id which subtracts 1 from the
+ * address, so pass addr+1 to resolve back to the function.
+ */
+ void *addr = (void *)((unsigned long)lineinfo_target_normal + 1);[Severity: Medium] Similarly, adding 1 to a function descriptor pointer instead of an instruction pointer creates a corrupt address. Will this cause snprintf() with %pBb to fail to format the backtrace correctly on architectures using function descriptors? -- Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260706142914.2398993-1-sashal@kernel.org?part=4