[LTP] [PATCH v5] coredump01: New core_pattern specifiers test

[Li Wang]

> > Generally this checks is really nice, but it'd be better to
> > add more checks for the core dump file?
> > 
> > e.g. file size > 0, ELF magic valid, and type == ET_CORE.
> 
> this is already done, but we can introduce ELF type check (read below).

+1

> > +static int verify_core_dump(const char *path, long long expected_size)
> > +{
> > +       int fd;
> > +       struct stat st;
> > +       unsigned char magic[SELFMAG];
> > +       Elf64_Ehdr ehdr;
> 
> Ehdr is not portable on 32 bit systems breaking our testing, so I
> wouldn't use it in this case. We need Elf32_Half which is in both
> 32bit and 64bit.

+1

> > +
> > +       fd = SAFE_OPEN(path, O_RDONLY, 0);
> > +       SAFE_READ(0, fd, magic, SELFMAG);
> > +       SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> > +
> > +       TST_EXP_EXPR(!memcmp(magic, ELFMAG, 4),
> > +                       "core file has valid ELF magic");
> > +
> > +       fd = SAFE_OPEN(path, O_RDONLY, 0);
> > +       SAFE_READ(0, fd, &ehdr, sizeof(ehdr));
> > +       SAFE_READ(0, fd, &ehdr, sizeof(ehdr));
> 
> double read? I guess it's an error

Oh sorry, that's a duplicate from the vim y&p.

> I will send a new version with some of the proposed checks

Thanks!


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Regards,
Li Wang