Re: [PATCH] kunit: Fix kunit.py run --build_dir='<foo>' fails on "unclean" trees

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 14:27:32 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:03 PM Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fix this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205219
>
> For some reason, the environment variable ARCH is used instead of ARCH
> passed as an argument, this patch uses a copy of the env, but using
> ARCH=um and CROSS_COMPILER='' to avoid this problem.
>
> This patch doesn't change the user's environment variables, avoiding
> side effects.

Seems reasonable to me.

> Signed-off-by: Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I cannot test this as your patch doesn't apply to our for-next branch
(kselftest/kunit). You can find it here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/log/?h=kunit

> ---
> tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py | 12 +++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> index d99ae75ef72f..0cb1f81ac8f2 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import kunit_config
>
> KCONFIG_PATH = '.config'
> kunitconfig_path = '.kunitconfig'
> +env = dict(os.environ.copy(), ARCH='um', CROSS_COMPILE='')
>
> class ConfigError(Exception):
> """Represents an error trying to configure the Linux kernel."""
> @@ -36,22 +37,22 @@ class LinuxSourceTreeOperations(object):
> raise ConfigError(e.output)
>
> def make_olddefconfig(self, build_dir):
> - command = ['make', 'ARCH=um', 'olddefconfig']
> + command = ['make', 'olddefconfig']
> if build_dir:
> command += ['O=' + build_dir]
> try:
> - subprocess.check_output(command)
> + subprocess.check_output(command, env=env)
> except OSError as e:
> raise ConfigError('Could not call make command: ' + e)
> except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
> raise ConfigError(e.output)
>
> def make(self, jobs, build_dir):
> - command = ['make', 'ARCH=um', '--jobs=' + str(jobs)]
> + command = ['make', '--jobs=' + str(jobs)]
> if build_dir:
> command += ['O=' + build_dir]
> try:
> - subprocess.check_output(command)
> + subprocess.check_output(command, env=env)
> except OSError as e:
> raise BuildError('Could not call execute make: ' + e)
> except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
> @@ -66,7 +67,8 @@ class LinuxSourceTreeOperations(object):
> [linux_bin] + params,
> stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
> stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> - stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
> + stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
> + env=env)
> process.wait(timeout=timeout)
> return process
>
> --
> 2.21.1
>