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([110.226.180.190]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-7f4c22848a7sm15317899b3a.3.2025.12.16.03.32.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:32:43 -0800 (PST) From: Clint George To: shuah@kernel.org Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, khalid@kernel.org, Clint George Subject: [PATCH] kselftest/anon_inode: replace null pointers with empty arrays Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:02:35 +0530 Message-ID: <20251216113235.4896-1-clintbgeorge@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Make use of empty (NULL-terminated) array instead of NULL pointer to avoid compiler errors while maintaining the behavior of the function intact Signed-off-by: Clint George --- [] Testing: The diff between before and after of running the kselftest test of the module shows no regression on system with x86 architecture Let me know if any more testing is needed to be done [] Error log: ~/Desktop/kernel-dev/linux-v1/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems$ make LLV= M=3D1 W=3D1 CC devpts_pts CC file_stressor CC anon_inode_test anon_inode_test.c:45:37: warning: null passed to a callee that requires a n= on-null argument [-Wnonnull] 45 | ASSERT_LT(execveat(fd_context, "", NULL, NULL, AT_EMPTY_PAT= H), 0); | ^~~~ /usr/lib/llvm-18/lib/clang/18/include/__stddef_null.h:26:14: note: expanded= from macro 'NULL' 26 | #define NULL ((void*)0) | ^~~~~~~~~~ /home/clint/Desktop/kernel-dev/linux-v1/tools/testing/selftests/../../../to= ols/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h:535:11: note: expanded from macro= 'ASSERT_LT' 535 | __EXPECT(expected, #expected, seen, #seen, <, 1) | ^~~~~~~~ /home/clint/Desktop/kernel-dev/linux-v1/tools/testing/selftests/../../../to= ols/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h:758:33: note: expanded from macro= '__EXPECT' 758 | __typeof__(_expected) __exp =3D (_expected); \ | ^~~~~~~~~ 1 warning generated. tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/anon_inode_test.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/anon_inode_test.c b/tools/= testing/selftests/filesystems/anon_inode_test.c index 94c6c81c2..2c4c50500 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/anon_inode_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/anon_inode_test.c @@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ TEST(anon_inode_no_exec) fd_context =3D sys_fsopen("tmpfs", 0); ASSERT_GE(fd_context, 0); =20 - ASSERT_LT(execveat(fd_context, "", NULL, NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH), 0); + char *const empty_argv[] =3D {NULL}; + char *const empty_envp[] =3D {NULL}; + + ASSERT_LT(execveat(fd_context, "", empty_argv, empty_envp, AT_EMPTY_PATH)= , 0); ASSERT_EQ(errno, EACCES); =20 EXPECT_EQ(close(fd_context), 0); --=20 2.43.0