Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Fix MWAIT error message when guest assertion fails

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Nov 28 2023 - 13:37:02 EST


On Sun, Nov 19, 2023, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 10:21 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Print out the test and vector as intended when a guest assert fails an
> > assertion regarding MONITOR/MWAIT faulting. Unfortunately, the guest
> > printf support doesn't detect such issues at compile-time, so the bug
> > manifests as a confusing error message, e.g. in the most confusing case,
> > the test complains that it got vector "0" instead of expected vector "0".
> >
> > Fixes: 0f52e4aaa614 ("KVM: selftests: Convert the MONITOR/MWAIT test to use printf guest asserts")
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/monitor_mwait_test.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/monitor_mwait_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/monitor_mwait_test.c
> > index 80aa3d8b18f8..853802641e1e 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/monitor_mwait_test.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/monitor_mwait_test.c
> > @@ -27,10 +27,12 @@ do { \
> > \
> > if (fault_wanted) \
> > __GUEST_ASSERT((vector) == UD_VECTOR, \
> > - "Expected #UD on " insn " for testcase '0x%x', got '0x%x'", vector); \
> > + "Expected #UD on " insn " for testcase '0x%x', got '0x%x'", \
> > + testcase, vector); \
> > else \
> > __GUEST_ASSERT(!(vector), \
> > - "Expected success on " insn " for testcase '0x%x', got '0x%x'", vector); \
> > + "Expected success on " insn " for testcase '0x%x', got '0x%x'", \
> > + testcase, vector); \
> > } while (0)
> >
> > static void guest_monitor_wait(int testcase)
> >
> > base-commit: 45b890f7689eb0aba454fc5831d2d79763781677
>
> I think that these days the gcc (and llvm likely) support printf annotations,
> and usually complain, we should look at adding these to have a warning in
> such cases.

Huh. Well now I feel quite stupid for not realizing that's what

__attribute__((__format__(printf, ...)))

is for. There's even a handy dandy __printf() macro now. I'll post a v2 with
the annotations and fixes for all existing violations.