[LTP] [PATCH] shmget02: reduce the shmmax test value in compat mode

[Martin Doucha]

Hi,

On 30. 05. 23 11:30, Li Wang wrote:
> As Arnd Bergmann pointed out that SHMMAX being defined as
> (ULONG_MAX - (1UL << 24)), so the kernel would likely use
> a large 64-bit value, while the 32-bit user space uses a
> much smaller limit.
> 
> It finally results in ENOMEM failure:
>    shmget02.c:95: TFAIL: shmget(1644199826, 4278190080, 1536)
>                   expected EINVAL: ENOMEM (12)
> 
> With suggest by Manfred Spraul we could reduce the value
> of '/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax' in compat mode and only test
> the overflow behavior with default+1.
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
> ---
>   testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/shmget/shmget02.c | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/shmget/shmget02.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/shmget/shmget02.c
> index 7989ef33e..faf633ad4 100644
> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/shmget/shmget02.c
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/shmget/shmget02.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ static struct tcase {
>   	{&shmkey1, SHM_SIZE, IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, ENOENT},
>   	{&shmkey, SHM_SIZE, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, EEXIST},
>   	{&shmkey1, SHMMIN - 1, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, EINVAL},
> +#ifdef TST_ABI32
> +	{&shmkey1, 8192 + 1, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, EINVAL},
> +#else
>   	{&shmkey1, SHMMAX + 1, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, EINVAL},
> +#endif
>   	{&shmkey, SHM_SIZE * 2, IPC_EXCL, 0, 0, EINVAL},
>   	{&shmkey, SHM_SIZE, SHM_RD, 1, 0, EACCES},
>   	{&shmkey1, SHM_SIZE, IPC_CREAT | SHM_HUGETLB, 0, 1, EPERM},
> @@ -149,4 +153,10 @@ static struct tst_test test = {
>   	.test = do_test,
>   	.tcnt = ARRAY_SIZE(tcases),
>   	.hugepages = {TST_NO_HUGEPAGES},
> +#ifdef TST_ABI32
> +	.save_restore = (const struct tst_path_val[]) {
> +		{"/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", "8192", TST_SR_TBROK},
> +		{}
> +	},
> +#endif
>   };

Could this be done without the conditional compilation? For example 
change the testcase to custom shmmax limit unconditionally or read the 
actual kernel limit from /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax in setup().

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Martin Doucha   mdoucha@suse.cz
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