Documentation: kunit: Warn that exit functions run even if init fails

KUnit's exit functions will run even if the corresponding init function
fails. It's easy, when writing an exit function, to assume the init
function succeeded, and (for example) access uninitialised memory or
dereference NULL pointers.

Note that this case exists and should be handled in the documentation.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/a39af0400abedb2e9b31d84c37551cecc3eed0e1.camel@sipsolutions.net/
Reviewed-by: Sadiya Kazi <sadiyakazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index 9f720f1317d3..46957d1cbcbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -166,7 +166,12 @@ many similar tests. In order to reduce duplication in these closely related
 tests, most unit testing frameworks (including KUnit) provide the concept of a
 *test suite*. A test suite is a collection of test cases for a unit of code
 with optional setup and teardown functions that run before/after the whole
-suite and/or every test case. For example:
+suite and/or every test case.
+
+.. note::
+   A test case will only run if it is associated with a test suite.
+
+For example:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
@@ -196,7 +201,10 @@ after everything else. ``kunit_test_suite(example_test_suite)`` registers the
 test suite with the KUnit test framework.
 
 .. note::
-   A test case will only run if it is associated with a test suite.
+   The ``exit`` and ``suite_exit`` functions will run even if ``init`` or
+   ``suite_init`` fail. Make sure that they can handle any inconsistent
+   state which may result from ``init`` or ``suite_init`` encountering errors
+   or exiting early.
 
 ``kunit_test_suite(...)`` is a macro which tells the linker to put the
 specified test suite in a special linker section so that it can be run by KUnit