On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:14:50 +0800 Sun Jian wrote:
> TEST_F() allocates and registers its struct __test_metadata via mmap()
> inside its constructor, and only then assigns the
> _##fixture_##test##_object pointer.
>
> XFAIL_ADD() runs in a constructor too and reads
> _##fixture_##test##_object to initialize xfail->test. If XFAIL_ADD runs
> first, xfail->test can be NULL and the expected failure will be reported
> as FAIL.
>
> Use constructor priorities to ensure TEST_F registration runs before
> XFAIL_ADD, without adding extra state or runtime lookups.
>
> Fixes: 2709473c9386 ("selftests: kselftest_harness: support using xfail")
> Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <[email protected]>
Hi Shuah!
Any preference which one of us takes this series?
No real preference here, just slight preference to ship it as
a fix to 7.0 rather than via -next.
