[LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/bind03: Bugfix for running with option "-i"

[Petr Vorel]

Hi,

> Hi!
> I was looking at the test wondering why do you try to unlink socket that
> wasn't bind properly and it looks like kernel creates the socket even in
> a case that the bind fails, which is strange and I would call it a bug.

> Looking at the kernel code it indeed does mknod before it takes locks
> and checks the socket. Even more it turns out that there is in-flight
> patchset that is fixing this:

> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YDQAmH9zSsaqf+Dg@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk/

> Anyways for now moved the code initializing the sockets into a setup()
> function and the only call that had to stay in the run() function is the
> unlink(SNAME_B); with a comment that kernel is buggy.

> And we will have to write a regression test for this bug once upstream
> kernel is fixed.

> Also note that I use unlink() here since the test will fail otherwise
> once kernel is fixed and there is no socket to be unlinked.

FYI I created issue #817 for it, feel free to improve the description.

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/814

Kind regards,
Petr