[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/setfsgid02: Bugfix for running as root

zhaogongyi zhaogongyi@huawei.com
Sat May 8 08:48:29 CEST 2021


Hi Cyril,

Thanks for your review!

I have resubmitted the patch and rewrite setfsgid02.c,

please see: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20210508064351.10737-1-zhaogongyi@huawei.com/


Thanks so much!

Best Regards,
Gongyi

> 
> Hi!
> > When we run the test as root id, and with the option "-i 2", test will
> > fail.
> 
> Looking at the test there is much more to fix.
> 
> - the description does not match what the test is doing
> - the pass/fail condition and TFAIL message does not make any sense
> 
> And its the same for the rest of the setfsgid tests.
> 
> Looking at the manual pages for this oddball syscall we should check if:
> 
> - unpriviledged process cannot change the value i.e. value that is
>   different from return from ret=setfsgid(-1) is passed as
>   setfsgid(ret+1) followed by setfsgid(-1) and all of these returns the
>   same value and the value also matches process effective group ID
> 
> - priviledged process can change the value i.e. the same as
>   unpriviledged but we expect the last setfsgid(-1) return
>   the new value. We either have to reset the setfsgid() at the end of
>   the test or run it in a fork()-ed process so that we start with a
>   clean plate for each iteration
> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz


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