Re: [PATCH 2/4] selftests/sigaltstack: Fix the sas test on old kernels

[Andy Lutomirski]

On May 7, 2016 8:02 AM, "Stas Sergeev" <stsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 03.05.2016 20:31, Andy Lutomirski ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>
>> The handling for old kernels was wrong.  Fix it.
>>
>> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c b/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
>> index 57da8bfde60b..a98c3ef8141f 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
>> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>>   #include <alloca.h>
>>   #include <string.h>
>>   #include <assert.h>
>> +#include <errno.h>
>>     #ifndef SS_AUTODISARM
>>   #define SS_AUTODISARM  (1 << 4)
>> @@ -117,13 +118,19 @@ int main(void)
>>         stk.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM;
>>         err = sigaltstack(&stk, NULL);
>>         if (err) {
>> -               perror("[FAIL]\tsigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM)");
>> -               stk.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK;
>> -       }
>> -       err = sigaltstack(&stk, NULL);
>> -       if (err) {
>> -               perror("[FAIL]\tsigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK)");
>> -               return EXIT_FAILURE;
>> +               if (errno == EINVAL) {
>> +                       printf("[NOTE]\tThe running kernel doesn't support SS_AUTODISARM\n");
>> +                       /*
>> +                        * If test cases for the !SS_AUTODISARM variant were
>> +                        * added, we could still run them.  We don't have any
>> +                        * test cases like that yet, so just exit and report
>> +                        * success.
>> +                        */
>
> But that was the point, please see how it handles the
> old kernels:
>
> $ ./sas
> [FAIL]    sigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM): Invalid argument
> [RUN]    signal USR1
> [FAIL]    ss_flags=1, should be SS_DISABLE
> [RUN]    switched to user ctx
> [RUN]    signal USR2
> [FAIL]    sigaltstack re-used
> [FAIL]    Stack corrupted
> [RUN]    Aborting

This is useful as a demonstration of why the feature is useful, but it
doesn't indicate that anything is wrong with old kernels per she.
That's why I changed it to simply report that the feature is missing.