linux/tools/testing
Steven Rostedt 72632af764 ktest.pl: Prevent recursion of default variable options
[ Upstream commit 61f7e318e9 ]

If a default variable contains itself, do not recurse on it.

For example:

  ADD_CONFIG := ${CONFIG_DIR}/temp_config
  DEFAULTS
  ADD_CONFIG = ${CONFIG_DIR}/default_config ${ADD_CONFIG}

The above works because the temp variable ADD_CONFIG (is a temp because it
is created with ":=") is already defined, it will be substituted in the
variable option. But if it gets commented out:

  # ADD_CONFIG := ${CONFIG_DIR}/temp_config
  DEFAULTS
  ADD_CONFIG = ${CONFIG_DIR}/default_config ${ADD_CONFIG}

Then the above will go into a recursive loop where ${ADD_CONFIG} will
get replaced with the current definition of ADD_CONFIG which contains the
${ADD_CONFIG} and that will also try to get converted. ktest.pl will error
after 100 attempts of recursion and fail.

When replacing a variable with the default variable, if the default
variable contains itself, do not replace it.

Cc: "John Warthog9 Hawley" <warthog9@kernel.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250718202053.732189428@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-08-28 16:24:20 +02:00
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fault-injection docs: fault-injection: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:07 -06:00
ktest ktest.pl: Prevent recursion of default variable options 2025-08-28 16:24:20 +02:00
kunit kunit: tool: Import missing importlib.abc 2022-02-23 12:03:04 +01:00
nvdimm memremap: remove support for external pgmap refcounts 2022-08-17 14:23:43 +02:00
radix-tree radix tree test suite: fix incorrect allocation size for pthreads 2023-08-16 18:21:58 +02:00
scatterlist Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-03 10:08:28 -07:00
selftests selftests: tracing: Use mutex_unlock for testing glob filter 2025-08-28 16:24:18 +02:00
vsock vsock_diag_test: remove free_sock_stat() call in test_no_sockets 2021-10-15 17:21:34 -07:00