Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: Add KUnit tests for fdtable

Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-hardening,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <202608111721.06C99CDB58@keescook>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 05:42:05PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 2:16 AM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 08:41:13PM +0000, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > > +static void fdtable_test_alloc(struct kunit *test)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct fdtable *fdt;
> > > +     unsigned int slots = 64;
> > > +
> > > +     fdt = alloc_fdtable(slots);
> > > +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, fdt);
> > > +
> > > +     /* Check that max_fds is set correctly and is >= slots */
> > > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_GE(test, fdt->max_fds, slots);
> > > +
> > > +     /* Check that fd is allocated */
> > > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, fdt->fd);
> >
> > Nice to add these tests! Can you add one for each of the conditionals
> > in alloc_fdtable (e.g. ENOMEM, EMFILE, and the power-of-two rounding-up
> > logic, etc)?
> 
> Wouldn't tests for stuff like the rounding-up logic get into
> implementation details too much, and break if implementation choices
> change?

It seemed to me like we'd want to notice if that behavior changed?

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Kees Cook
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