[LTP] [PATCH v3] Add new tests for clone and clone3

Stephen Bertram sbertram@redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 19:03:18 CET 2025


Confirming EPERM is returned when CAP_SYS_ADMIN is
removed from clone and clone3.
And for clone3 the set_tid_size is greater than 0.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Bertram <sbertram@redhat.com>
---
 runtest/syscalls                            |  2 +
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/.gitignore  |  1 +
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone11.c   | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/.gitignore |  1 +
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/clone304.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 139 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone11.c
 create mode 100644 testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/clone304.c

diff --git a/runtest/syscalls b/runtest/syscalls
index 54d94c0ca..a1ef7548b 100644
--- a/runtest/syscalls
+++ b/runtest/syscalls
@@ -124,10 +124,12 @@ clone07 clone07
 clone08 clone08
 clone09 clone09
 clone10 clone10
+clone11 clone11
 
 clone301 clone301
 clone302 clone302
 clone303 clone303
+clone304 clone304
 
 close01 close01
 close02 close02
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/.gitignore b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/.gitignore
index adfb8257d..0edcfef5d 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/.gitignore
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /clone08
 /clone09
 /clone10
+/clone11
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone11.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone11.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dd26c1594
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone11.c
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Stephen Bertram <sbertram@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+/*\
+ * This test verifies that clone() fals with EPERM when CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+ * has been dropped.
+ */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
+#include "tst_test.h"
+#include "clone_platform.h"
+
+static void *child_stack;
+static int *child_pid;
+
+static struct tcase {
+	uint64_t flags;
+	char *sflags;
+} tcases[] = {
+	{CLONE_NEWPID, "CLONE_NEWPID"},
+	{CLONE_NEWCGROUP, "CLONE_NEWCGROUP"},
+	{CLONE_NEWIPC, "CLONE_NEWIPC"},
+	{CLONE_NEWNET, "CLONE_NEWNET"},
+	{CLONE_NEWNS, "CLONE_NEWNS"},
+	{CLONE_NEWUTS, "CLONE_NEWUTS"},
+};
+
+static int child_fn(void *arg LTP_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+		*child_pid = getpid();
+		exit(0);
+}
+
+static void run(unsigned int n)
+{
+	struct tcase *tc = &tcases[n];
+
+	TST_EXP_FAIL(ltp_clone(tc->flags, child_fn, NULL, CHILD_STACK_SIZE,
+			child_stack), EPERM, "clone(%s) should fail with EPERM"
+			, tc->sflags);
+}
+
+static void setup(void)
+{
+	child_pid = SAFE_MMAP(NULL, sizeof(*child_pid), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+		MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+}
+
+static void cleanup(void)
+{
+	if (child_pid)
+		SAFE_MUNMAP(child_pid, sizeof(*child_pid));
+}
+
+static struct tst_test test = {
+	.tcnt = ARRAY_SIZE(tcases),
+	.setup = setup,
+	.test = run,
+	.cleanup = cleanup,
+	.needs_root = 1,
+	.caps = (struct tst_cap []) {
+			TST_CAP(TST_CAP_DROP, CAP_SYS_ADMIN),
+			{},
+	},
+	.bufs = (struct tst_buffers []) {
+			{&child_stack, .size = CHILD_STACK_SIZE},
+			{},
+	},
+};
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/.gitignore b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/.gitignore
index 10369954b..e9b5312f4 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/.gitignore
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 clone301
 clone302
 clone303
+clone304
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/clone304.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/clone304.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e47ab313e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone3/clone304.c
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Stephen Bertram <sbertram@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+/*\
+ * This test verifies that clone3() fals with EPERM when CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+ * has been dropped and ``clone_args.set_tid_size`` is greater than zero.
+ */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include "tst_test.h"
+#include "lapi/sched.h"
+
+static struct clone_args args = {0};
+static pid_t tid_array[4] = {0, 0, 0, 0};
+
+static struct tcase {
+	uint64_t flags;
+	char *sflags;
+} tcases[] = {
+	{CLONE_NEWPID, "CLONE_NEWPID"},
+	{CLONE_NEWCGROUP, "CLONE_NEWCGROUP"},
+	{CLONE_NEWIPC, "CLONE_NEWIPC"},
+	{CLONE_NEWNET, "CLONE_NEWNET"},
+	{CLONE_NEWNS, "CLONE_NEWNS"},
+	{CLONE_NEWUTS, "CLONE_NEWUTS"},
+};
+
+static void run(unsigned int n)
+{
+	struct tcase *tc = &tcases[n];
+
+	args.flags = tc->flags;
+
+	TST_EXP_FAIL(clone3(&args, sizeof(args)), EPERM, "clone3(%s) should fail with EPERM"
+			, tc->sflags);
+}
+
+static void setup(void)
+{
+	clone3_supported_by_kernel();
+
+	memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
+	args.set_tid = (uintptr_t)tid_array;
+	/* set_tid_size greater than zero - requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN */
+	args.set_tid_size = 4;
+}
+
+static struct tst_test test = {
+	.tcnt = ARRAY_SIZE(tcases),
+	.setup = setup,
+	.test = run,
+	.needs_root = 1,
+	.caps = (struct tst_cap []) {
+			TST_CAP(TST_CAP_DROP, CAP_SYS_ADMIN),
+			{},
+	},
+	.bufs = (struct tst_buffers []) {
+			{&args, .size = sizeof(struct clone_args)},
+			{},
+	},
+};
-- 
2.49.0



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