Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] selftests/clone3: Fix broken test under !CONFIG_TIME_NS

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, Jun 05 2023 at 20:33, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> When execute the following command to test clone3 on LoongArch:
>
>   # cd tools/testing/selftests/clone3 && make && ./clone3
>
> we can see the following error info:
>
>   # [5719] Trying clone3() with flags 0x80 (size 0)
>   # Invalid argument - Failed to create new process
>   # [5719] clone3() with flags says: -22 expected 0
>   not ok 18 [5719] Result (-22) is different than expected (0)
>
> This is because if CONFIG_TIME_NS is not set, but the flag
> CLONE_NEWTIME (0x80) is used to clone a time namespace, it
> will return -EINVAL in copy_time_ns().
>
> Here is the related code in include/linux/time_namespace.h:
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_NS
>   ...
>   struct time_namespace *copy_time_ns(unsigned long flags,
> 				      struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> 				      struct time_namespace *old_ns);
>   ...
>   #else
>   ...
>   static inline
>   struct time_namespace *copy_time_ns(unsigned long flags,
> 				      struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> 				      struct time_namespace *old_ns)
>   {
> 	  if (flags & CLONE_NEWTIME)
> 		  return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> 	  return old_ns;
>   }
>   ...
>   #endif

There is really no point in copying that code into the changelog. The
textual explanation that it returns -EINVAL is good enough.

> Here is the complete call stack:
>
>   clone3()
>     kernel_clone()
>       copy_process()
>         copy_namespaces()
>           create_new_namespaces()
>             copy_time_ns()
>               clone_time_ns()

Uninteresting too.

> If kernel does not support CONFIG_TIME_NS, /proc/self/ns/time
> will be not exist, and then we should skip clone3() test with
> CLONE_NEWTIME.

Correct.

> With this patch under !CONFIG_TIME_NS:
>
>   # cd tools/testing/selftests/clone3 && make && ./clone3
>   ...
>   # Time namespaces are not supported
>   ok 18 # SKIP Skipping clone3() with CLONE_NEWTIME
>   # Totals: pass:17 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0

> Fixes: 515bddf0ec41 ("selftests/clone3: test clone3 with CLONE_NEWTIME")
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
> index e495f89..c721f8a 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  			CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST);
>  
>  	/* Do a clone3() in a new time namespace */
> -	test_clone3(CLONE_NEWTIME, 0, 0, CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST);
> +	if (access("/proc/self/ns/time", F_OK) == 0) {
> +		test_clone3(CLONE_NEWTIME, 0, 0, CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST);
> +	} else {
> +		ksft_print_msg("Time namespaces are not supported\n");
> +		ksft_test_result_skip("Skipping clone3() with CLONE_NEWTIME\n");
> +	}

Patch looks good otherwise.

Thanks,

        tglx