[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] Add test for fanotify monitoring of tracing filesystem

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Mon Feb 23 17:30:28 CET 2026


Hi!
CCing Jan and Amir.

> Add a test that will start monitoring the kernel tracing filesystem,
> write new configuration into tracing sysfiles and then verify
> that the writes triggered fanotify events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
> ---
>  runtest/syscalls                              |   1 +
>  runtest/tracing                               |   1 +
>  testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/.gitignore |   1 +
>  .../kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c     | 126 ++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 129 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c
> 
> diff --git a/runtest/syscalls b/runtest/syscalls
> index 2f629e4e4..30224f5b4 100644
> --- a/runtest/syscalls
> +++ b/runtest/syscalls
> @@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ fanotify21 fanotify21
>  fanotify22 fanotify22
>  fanotify23 fanotify23
>  fanotify24 fanotify24
> +fanotify25 fanotify25
>  
>  ioperm01 ioperm01
>  ioperm02 ioperm02
> diff --git a/runtest/tracing b/runtest/tracing
> index d2700ca57..674e2ad97 100644
> --- a/runtest/tracing
> +++ b/runtest/tracing
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ftrace_regression01	ftrace_regression01.sh
>  ftrace_regression02	ftrace_regression02.sh
>  ftrace-stress-test	ftrace_stress_test.sh 90
>  dynamic_debug01		dynamic_debug01.sh
> +fanotify25 fanotify25
>  pt_full_trace_basic pt_test
>  pt_snapshot_trace_basic pt_test -m
>  pt_ex_user pt_test -e user
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/.gitignore b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/.gitignore
> index 16af3db85..d6d0599f1 100644
> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/.gitignore
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/.gitignore
> @@ -22,4 +22,5 @@
>  /fanotify22
>  /fanotify23
>  /fanotify24
> +/fanotify25
>  /fanotify_child
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..c982f3225
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2026 SUSE LLC
> + * Author: Petr Pavlu <ppavlu@suse.cz>
> + * LTP port: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
> + */
> +
> +/*\
> + * Verify that fanotify monitoring can be applied to the tracing filesystem
> + * and write events will be correctly delivered.
> + */
> +
> +#define _GNU_SOURCE
> +#include "tst_test.h"
> +#include "lapi/mount.h"
> +
> +#ifdef HAVE_SYS_FANOTIFY_H
> +#include "fanotify.h"
> +
> +#define MNTPOINT "/sys/kernel/tracing"
> +#define EVENTS_SYSFILE MNTPOINT "/kprobe_events"
> +
> +static const struct traceconfig {
> +	const char *filename;
> +	const char *wdata;
> +} trace_cmds[] = {
> +	{EVENTS_SYSFILE, "p:ltp_load_module_0 load_module"},
> +	{MNTPOINT "/events/kprobes/ltp_load_module_0/enable", "1"},
> +	{MNTPOINT "/events/kprobes/ltp_load_module_0/enable", "0"},
> +	{EVENTS_SYSFILE, "-:ltp_load_module_0"},
> +	{}
> +};
> +
> +static int fan_fd = -1;
> +static int unmount_needed;
> +
> +static void setup(void)
> +{
> +	if (tst_fs_type(MNTPOINT) != TST_TRACEFS_MAGIC) {
> +		SAFE_MOUNT("tracefs", MNTPOINT, "tracefs",
> +			MS_NODEV | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NOSUID, NULL);
> +		unmount_needed = 1;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (access(EVENTS_SYSFILE, F_OK))
> +		tst_brk(TCONF, "Kprobe events not supported by kernel");
> +
> +	fan_fd = SAFE_FANOTIFY_INIT(FAN_CLASS_NOTIF | FAN_NONBLOCK, O_RDONLY);
> +	SAFE_FANOTIFY_MARK(fan_fd, FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_MOUNT, FAN_MODIFY,
> +		-1, MNTPOINT);
> +}
> +
> +static void do_child(void)
> +{
> +	int i, fd, events, ret;
> +	pid_t pid = getpid();
> +	struct fanotify_event_metadata buf;
> +
> +	for (i = 0, events = 0; trace_cmds[i].filename; i++) {
> +		fd = SAFE_OPEN(trace_cmds[i].filename, O_WRONLY, 0644);
> +		SAFE_WRITE(1, fd, trace_cmds[i].wdata,
> +			strlen(trace_cmds[i].wdata));
> +		SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> +
> +		while ((ret = read(fan_fd, &buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
> +			if (buf.pid != pid)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			if (!(buf.mask & FAN_MODIFY)) {
> +				tst_res(TFAIL, "Unexpected event %llx",
> +					buf.mask);
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +
> +			events++;
> +		}
> +
> +		if (ret < 0 && errno != EAGAIN)
> +			tst_res(TFAIL | TERRNO, "fanotify read() failed");
> +	}
> +
> +	if (events == i)
> +		tst_res(TPASS, "Received %d events", events);
> +	else
> +		tst_res(TFAIL, "Received %d events, expected %d", events, i);
> +}
> +
> +static void run(void)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Fork a child to do the actual trace writes, otherwise tracefs
> +	 * would be busy until the current process exits and it would become
> +	 * impossible to unmount in cleanup().
> +	 */
> +	if (!SAFE_FORK()) {
> +		do_child();
> +		SAFE_CLOSE(fan_fd);
> +		exit(0);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void cleanup(void)
> +{
> +	if (fan_fd >= 0)
> +		SAFE_CLOSE(fan_fd);
> +
> +	if (unmount_needed)
> +		SAFE_UMOUNT(MNTPOINT);
> +}
> +
> +static struct tst_test test = {
> +	.test_all = run,
> +	.setup = setup,
> +	.cleanup = cleanup,
> +	.needs_root = 1,
> +	.forks_child = 1,
> +	.taint_check = TST_TAINT_W | TST_TAINT_D,
> +	.needs_kconfigs = (const char *[]) {
> +		"CONFIG_TRACING",
> +		NULL
> +	}
> +};
> +
> +#else
> +	TST_TEST_TCONF("system doesn't have required fanotify support");
> +#endif
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
> 
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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