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[v4,04/10] selftests/harness: Fix interleaved scheduling leading to race conditions

Message ID 20240502210926.145539-5-mic@digikod.net
State Superseded
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Series Fix Kselftest's vfork() side effects | expand

Commit Message

Mickaël Salaün May 2, 2024, 9:09 p.m. UTC 
Fix a race condition when running several FIXTURE_TEARDOWN() managing
the same resource.  This fixes a race condition in the Landlock file
system tests when creating or unmounting the same directory.

Using clone3() with CLONE_VFORK guarantees that the child and grandchild
test processes are sequentially scheduled.  This is implemented with a
new clone3_vfork() helper replacing the fork() call.

This avoids triggering this error in __wait_for_test():
  Test ended in some other way [127]

Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Fixes: 41cca0542d7c ("selftests/harness: Fix TEST_F()'s vfork handling")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502210926.145539-5-mic@digikod.net
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Changes since v2:
* Replace __attribute__((__unused__)) with inline for clone3_vfork()
  (suggested by Kees and Jakub)
---
 tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
index 55699a762c45..9d7178a71c2c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ 
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <setjmp.h>
+#include <syscall.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #include "kselftest.h"
 
@@ -80,6 +82,17 @@ 
 #  define TH_LOG_ENABLED 1
 #endif
 
+/* Wait for the child process to end but without sharing memory mapping. */
+static inline pid_t clone3_vfork(void)
+{
+	struct clone_args args = {
+		.flags = CLONE_VFORK,
+		.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
+	};
+
+	return syscall(__NR_clone3, &args, sizeof(args));
+}
+
 /**
  * TH_LOG()
  *
@@ -1183,7 +1196,7 @@  void __run_test(struct __fixture_metadata *f,
 	fflush(stdout);
 	fflush(stderr);
 
-	t->pid = fork();
+	t->pid = clone3_vfork();
 	if (t->pid < 0) {
 		ksft_print_msg("ERROR SPAWNING TEST CHILD\n");
 		t->exit_code = KSFT_FAIL;