[PATCH 4.4 21/49] perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 08:08:24 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]

Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always
reports success even if the test case fails. It works correctly if you
also specify -F (for don't fork).

root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16
15: Setup struct perf_event_attr :
--- start ---
running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
(1 samples) ]
expected task=0, got 1
expected precise_ip=0, got 3
expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and
returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.

This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only
handle values 0-0xff.

The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does
not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test
result.

Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const
snprintf(cmd, 3*PATH_MAX, PYTHON " %s/attr.py -d %s/attr/ -p %s %.*s",
d, d, perf, vcnt, v);

- return system(cmd);
+ return system(cmd) ? TEST_FAIL : TEST_OK;
}

int test__attr(void)