[LTP] [PATCH 2/5] fanotify21: Stop relying on exited child for pidfd error

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 16-06-26 02:06:26, AnonymeMeow wrote:
> fanotify21 used to verify the pidfd error case by generating an event
> from a child process and reading the event after the child had exited.
> This is no longer a stable way to trigger a pidfd error, because newer
> kernels can report pidfds for exited event processes.
> 
> Read the event from a child process in a descendant PID namespace
> instead. The reader cannot get the pidfd in the parent PID namespace
> from fanotify, so pidfd creation will fail and the test can verify
> FAN_NOPIDFD, or -ESRCH with FAN_REPORT_FD_ERROR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AnonymeMeow <anonymemeow@gmail.com>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  .../kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify21.c     | 55 ++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify21.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify21.c
> index 4d2115469..bd1a43513 100644
> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify21.c
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify21.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ struct pidfd_fdinfo_t {
>  
>  static struct test_case_t {
>  	char *name;
> -	int fork;
>  	int want_pidfd_err;
>  	int remount_ro;
>  } test_cases[] = {
> @@ -50,18 +49,15 @@ static struct test_case_t {
>  		"return a valid pidfd for event created by self",
>  		0,
>  		0,
> -		0,
>  	},
>  	{
> -		"return invalid pidfd for event created by terminated child",
> -		1,
> +		"return invalid pidfd for reader in descendant PID namespace",
>  		1,
>  		0,
>  	},
>  	{
>  		"fail to open rw fd for event created on read-only mount",
>  		0,
> -		0,
>  		1,
>  	},
>  };
> @@ -72,6 +68,11 @@ static struct pidfd_fdinfo_t *self_pidfd_fdinfo;
>  
>  static int fd_error_unsupported;
>  
> +static struct tst_clone_args clone_args = {
> +	.flags = CLONE_NEWPID,
> +	.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
> +};
> +
>  static struct pidfd_fdinfo_t *read_pidfd_fdinfo(int pidfd)
>  {
>  	char *fdinfo_path;
> @@ -100,24 +101,6 @@ static void generate_event(void)
>  	SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
>  }
>  
> -static void do_fork(void)
> -{
> -	int status;
> -	pid_t child;
> -
> -	child = SAFE_FORK();
> -	if (child == 0) {
> -		SAFE_CLOSE(fanotify_fd);
> -		generate_event();
> -		exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> -	}
> -
> -	SAFE_WAITPID(child, &status, 0);
> -	if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
> -		tst_brk(TBROK,
> -			"child process terminated incorrectly");
> -}
> -
>  static void do_setup(void)
>  {
>  	int pidfd;
> @@ -165,6 +148,8 @@ static void do_test(unsigned int num)
>  	int nopidfd_err = tc->want_pidfd_err ?
>  			  (tst_variant ? -ESRCH : FAN_NOPIDFD) : 0;
>  	int fd_err = (tc->remount_ro && tst_variant) ? -EROFS : 0;
> +	pid_t reader_pid;
> +	int reader_exit_status;
>  
>  	tst_res(TINFO, "Test #%d.%d: %s %s", num, tst_variant, tc->name,
>  			tst_variant ? "(FAN_REPORT_FD_ERROR)" : "");
> @@ -178,15 +163,20 @@ static void do_test(unsigned int num)
>  	SAFE_MOUNT("none", MOUNT_PATH, "none", MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT |
>  		   (tc->remount_ro ? MS_RDONLY : 0), NULL);
>  
> +	generate_event();
> +
>  	/*
> -	 * Generate the event in either self or a child process. Event
> -	 * generation in a child process is done so that the FAN_NOPIDFD case
> -	 * can be verified.
> +	 * Read the event in either self or a child process in a descendant
> +	 * PID namespace. A reader in a descendant PID namespace cannot obtain
> +	 * the pidfd of the event process in the parent PID namespace so that
> +	 * the FAN_NOPIDFD case can be verified.
>  	 */
> -	if (tc->fork)
> -		do_fork();
> -	else
> -		generate_event();
> +	if (tc->want_pidfd_err && (reader_pid = SAFE_CLONE(&clone_args))) {
> +		SAFE_WAITPID(reader_pid, &reader_exit_status, 0);
> +		if (!WIFEXITED(reader_exit_status) || WEXITSTATUS(reader_exit_status))
> +			tst_brk(TBROK, "reader process exited incorrectly");
> +		return;
> +	}
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Read all of the queued events into the provided event
> @@ -274,7 +264,7 @@ static void do_test(unsigned int num)
>  			goto next_event;
>  		} else if (tc->want_pidfd_err && info->pidfd == nopidfd_err) {
>  			tst_res(TPASS,
> -				"pid: %u terminated before pidfd was created, "
> +				"pid: %u is invisible in reader PID namespace, "
>  				"pidfd set to the value of: %d, as expected",
>  				(unsigned int)event->pid,
>  				nopidfd_err);
> @@ -343,6 +333,9 @@ next_event:
>  		if (event_pidfd_fdinfo)
>  			free(event_pidfd_fdinfo);
>  	}
> +
> +	if (tc->want_pidfd_err)
> +		exit(0);
>  }
>  
>  static void do_cleanup(void)
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR