KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL(9)

💅 KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL 💅

okay so this is KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the vibe check for a null pointer 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL — asserts that pointers @ptr is null.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL (test , ptr );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• test — the test context object 👑
• ptr — an arbitrary pointer, no cap 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It sets an assertion that the values that ptr evaluates to is null. Slay.

This is the same as KUNIT_EXPECT_NULL, except it causes an assertion failure (see KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE) when the assertion is not met. So yeah, bestie, this one is not just a gentle little expectation — it's giving real consequences 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./include/kunit/test.h

• enum kunit_status(9)
• struct kunit_case(9)
• KUNIT_CASE(9)
• KUNIT_CASE_ATTR(9)
• KUNIT_CASE_SLOW(9)
• KUNIT_CASE_PARAM(9)
• KUNIT_CASE_PARAM_ATTR(9)
• KUNIT_CASE_PARAM_WITH_INIT(9)
• struct kunit_suite(9)
• struct kunit(9)
• kunit_test_suites(9)
• kunit_test_init_section_suites(9)
• kunit_kmalloc_array(9)
• kunit_kmalloc(9)
• kunit_kfree(9)
• kunit_kzalloc(9)
• kunit_kcalloc(9)
• kunit_kfree_const(9)
• kunit_kstrdup(9)
• kunit_kstrdup_const(9)
• kunit_attach_mm(9)
• kunit_vm_mmap(9)
• kunit_mark_skipped(9)
• kunit_skip(9)
• kunit_info(9)
• kunit_warn(9)
• kunit_err(9)
• KUNIT_SUCCEED(9)
• KUNIT_FAIL(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_FALSE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_NE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_NE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_LT(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_LE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_GT(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_GE(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_STRNEQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_MEMEQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_MEMNEQ(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_NULL(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_NULL(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(9)
• KUNIT_FAIL_AND_ABORT(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_PTR_EQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_PTR_NE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_LT(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_LE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_GT(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_GE(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_STRNEQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMNEQ(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(9)
• KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM(9)
• KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM_DESC(9)
• kunit_register_params_array(9)
• kunit_warning_suppress(9)
• KUNIT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(9)
• KUNIT_EXPECT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(9)
• KUNIT_ASSERT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(9)

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cute sign-off time 🎀: this page's source/version is ./include/kunit, it's dated October 2026, and its page id is KUNIT_ASSERT_NULL(9). stay slay, bestie 💖✨