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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * An API to allow a function, that may fail, to be executed, and recover in a
+ * controlled manner.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019, Google LLC.
+ * Author: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
+ */
+
+#include <kunit/test.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+
+#include "try-catch-impl.h"
+
+void __noreturn kunit_try_catch_throw(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch)
+{
+	try_catch->try_result = -EFAULT;
+	complete_and_exit(try_catch->try_completion, -EFAULT);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kunit_try_catch_throw);
+
+static int kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter(void *data)
+{
+	struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch = data;
+
+	try_catch->try(try_catch->context);
+
+	complete_and_exit(try_catch->try_completion, 0);
+}
+
+static unsigned long kunit_test_timeout(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * TODO(brendanhiggins@google.com): We should probably have some type of
+	 * variable timeout here. The only question is what that timeout value
+	 * should be.
+	 *
+	 * The intention has always been, at some point, to be able to label
+	 * tests with some type of size bucket (unit/small, integration/medium,
+	 * large/system/end-to-end, etc), where each size bucket would get a
+	 * default timeout value kind of like what Bazel does:
+	 * https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/be/common-definitions.html#test.size
+	 * There is still some debate to be had on exactly how we do this. (For
+	 * one, we probably want to have some sort of test runner level
+	 * timeout.)
+	 *
+	 * For more background on this topic, see:
+	 * https://mike-bland.com/2011/11/01/small-medium-large.html
+	 *
+	 * If tests timeout due to exceeding sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs,
+	 * the task will be killed and an oops generated.
+	 */
+	return 300 * MSEC_PER_SEC; /* 5 min */
+}
+
+void kunit_try_catch_run(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch, void *context)
+{
+	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(try_completion);
+	struct kunit *test = try_catch->test;
+	struct task_struct *task_struct;
+	int exit_code, time_remaining;
+
+	try_catch->context = context;
+	try_catch->try_completion = &try_completion;
+	try_catch->try_result = 0;
+	task_struct = kthread_run(kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter,
+				  try_catch,
+				  "kunit_try_catch_thread");
+	if (IS_ERR(task_struct)) {
+		try_catch->catch(try_catch->context);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	time_remaining = wait_for_completion_timeout(&try_completion,
+						     kunit_test_timeout());
+	if (time_remaining == 0) {
+		kunit_err(test, "try timed out\n");
+		try_catch->try_result = -ETIMEDOUT;
+	}
+
+	exit_code = try_catch->try_result;
+
+	if (!exit_code)
+		return;
+
+	if (exit_code == -EFAULT)
+		try_catch->try_result = 0;
+	else if (exit_code == -EINTR)
+		kunit_err(test, "wake_up_process() was never called\n");
+	else if (exit_code)
+		kunit_err(test, "Unknown error: %d\n", exit_code);
+
+	try_catch->catch(try_catch->context);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kunit_try_catch_run);