EXPECT_STREQ(9)

✨ EXPECT_STREQ ✨ (the kselftest harness one, bestie)

okay so this page lives in the Kernel API Manual — it's section 9, kernel-space energy only 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

EXPECT_STREQ — bestie, this is the soft string-equality check 👀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

EXPECT_STREQ (expected , seen );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• expected — the expected value 🫶 like, the thing you think should be there
• seen — the measured value 🌸 the thing that actually showed up

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

EXPECT_STREQ(expected, measured): !strcmp(expected, measured)

that's it, that's the whole vibe, no cap ✨ it literally runs !strcmp(expected, measured) — so it's true when the two strings match, false when they don't 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, fr fr — go read these too:

• Kernel file ./tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h example(9)
• TH_LOG(9)
• SKIP(9)
• TEST(9)
• TEST_SIGNAL(9)
• FIXTURE_DATA(9)
• FIXTURE(9)
• FIXTURE_SETUP(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN_PARENT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(9)
• TEST_F(9)
• TEST_HARNESS_MAIN(9)
• operators(9)
• ASSERT_EQ(9)
• ASSERT_NE(9)
• ASSERT_LT(9)
• ASSERT_LE(9)
• ASSERT_GT(9)
• ASSERT_GE(9)
• ASSERT_NULL(9)
• ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• ASSERT_STRNE(9)
• EXPECT_EQ(9)
• EXPECT_NE(9)
• EXPECT_LT(9)
• EXPECT_LE(9)
• EXPECT_GT(9)
• EXPECT_GE(9)
• EXPECT_NULL(9)
• EXPECT_TRUE(9)
• EXPECT_FALSE(9)
• EXPECT_STRNE(9)
• XFAIL_ADD(9)

💀 tiny lil sign-off before you go: this masterpiece ships from ./tools/testing/selftests and it's dated October 2026 — so when someone asks where you learned EXPECT_STREQ(9), tell 'em the Kernel API Manual said it first 🧚💜