[LTP] [PATCH v8 1/2] lib: New library function tst_get_free_uid

[Wei Gao]

Add tst_get_free_uid() to dynamically find unused UIDs for tests.

Signed-off-by: Wei Gao <wegao@suse.com>
---
 include/tst_uid.h |  7 +++++--
 lib/tst_uid.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/tst_uid.h b/include/tst_uid.h
index 2237ddcbf..394cb3edc 100644
--- a/include/tst_uid.h
+++ b/include/tst_uid.h
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 /*
- * Find unassigned gid. The skip argument can be used to ignore e.g. the main
+ * Find unassigned uid/gid. The skip argument can be used to ignore e.g. the main
  * group of a specific user in case it's not listed in the group file. If you
- * do not need to skip any specific gid, simply set it to 0.
+ * do not need to skip any specific id, simply set it to 0.
  */
+uid_t tst_get_free_uid_(const char *file, const int lineno, uid_t skip);
+#define tst_get_free_uid(skip) tst_get_free_uid_(__FILE__, __LINE__, (skip))
+
 gid_t tst_get_free_gid_(const char *file, const int lineno, gid_t skip);
 #define tst_get_free_gid(skip) tst_get_free_gid_(__FILE__, __LINE__, (skip))
 
diff --git a/lib/tst_uid.c b/lib/tst_uid.c
index af4ef8cf7..deff17085 100644
--- a/lib/tst_uid.c
+++ b/lib/tst_uid.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <grp.h>
+#include <pwd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 
 #define TST_NO_DEFAULT_MAIN
@@ -12,6 +13,31 @@
 #include "tst_uid.h"
 
 #define MAX_GID 32767
+#define MAX_UID 32767
+
+uid_t tst_get_free_uid_(const char *file, const int lineno, uid_t skip)
+{
+	uid_t ret;
+
+	errno = 0;
+
+	for (ret = 1; ret < MAX_UID; ret++) {
+		if (ret == skip || getpwuid(ret))
+			continue;
+
+		if (errno == 0 || errno == ENOENT || errno == ESRCH) {
+			tst_res_(file, lineno, TINFO | TERRNO,
+				"Found unused UID %d", (int)ret);
+			return ret;
+		}
+
+		tst_brk_(file, lineno, TBROK|TERRNO, "User ID lookup failed");
+		return (uid_t)-1;
+	}
+
+	tst_brk_(file, lineno, TBROK, "No free user ID found");
+	return (uid_t)-1;
+}
 
 gid_t tst_get_free_gid_(const char *file, const int lineno, gid_t skip)
 {
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