[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] Add test for fanotify monitoring of tracing filesystem
Petr Vorel
pvorel@suse.cz
Tue Feb 24 14:40:23 CET 2026
Hi Martin,
LGTM
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify25.c
...
> +#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);
I see possible mounting is the reason...
> + unmount_needed = 1;
> + }
> +
> + if (access(EVENTS_SYSFILE, F_OK))
> + tst_brk(TCONF, "Kprobe events not supported by kernel");
... why we cannot check /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events presence via
.save_restore.
> +
> + 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);
> +}
OT: I guess we miss optional string arg for TST_EXP_EQ_*() macros to be usable.
> +
> +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().
> + */
+1
Kind regards,
Petr
> + if (!SAFE_FORK()) {
> + do_child();
> + SAFE_CLOSE(fan_fd);
> + exit(0);
> + }
> +}
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