[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] ptrace07: Fix compilation by avoiding aligned_alloc

[Pengfei Xu]

Hi Li Wang,
On 2022-10-19 at 10:59:54 +0800, Li Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:40 AM Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > On 2022-10-18 at 16:25:27 +0100, Richard Palethorpe wrote:
> > > Use memalign instead because we live in the past.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
> > > Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace07.c | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace07.c
> > b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace07.c
> > > index 6bd2b1062..a60c2a49e 100644
> > > --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace07.c
> > > +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace07.c
> > > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> > >  #include "config.h"
> > >  #include "ptrace.h"
> > >  #include "tst_test.h"
> > > +#include "tst_safe_macros.h"
> > >  #include "lapi/cpuid.h"
> > >
> > >  #ifndef PTRACE_GETREGSET
> > > @@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ static void do_test(void)
> > >        * of the XSAVE/XRSTOR save area) required by enabled features in
> > XCR0.
> > >        */
> > >       __cpuid_count(CPUID_LEAF_XSTATE, ecx, eax, ebx, ecx, edx);
> > > -     xstate = aligned_alloc(64, ebx);
> > > +     xstate = SAFE_MEMALIGN(64, ebx);
> > >       struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = xstate, .iov_len = ebx };
> > >       int status;
> > >       bool okay;
> >
> > Yes, it's better for LTP compilation. Thanks for the patch!
> >
> > I checked SAFE_MEMALIGN(), it will verify that the buffer is NULL or not.
> > "
> >         rval = memalign(alignment, size);
> >
> >         if (rval == NULL) {
> >                 tst_brkm_(file, lineno, TBROK | TERRNO, cleanup_fn,
> >                         "memalign() failed");
> >         }
> > "
> > So could you remove below unnecessary lines in ptrace07.c, thanks.
> >
> 
> I helped modify this and pushed it, thanks!
  Great, thanks!
  I tried that "SAFE_MEMALIGN(64, ebx);" modification in ptrace07.
  Ptrace07 works well and passed in previous reproduced server.

  Thanks!
  BR.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Li Wang