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

Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
Wed Oct 19 05:20:18 CEST 2022


On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:17 AM Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Cool~ thanks for your feedback.

-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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