[PATCH 2/2] kselftest/arm64: Try harder to generate different keys during PAC tests

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Nov 11 2024 - 11:19:41 EST


We very intermittently see failures in the single_thread_different_keys
PAC test. As noted in the comment in the test the PAC field can be quite
narrow so there is a chance of collisions even with different keys with a
chance of 5% for 7 bit keys, and the potential for narrower keys. The test
tries to avoid this by running repeatedly, but only tries 10 times which
even with a 5% chance of collisions isn't enough.

Increase the number of times we attempt to look for collisions by a factor
of 100, this also affects other tests which are following a similar pattern
with running the test repeatedly and either don't care like with
pac_instruction_not_nop or potentially have the same issue like
exec_sign_all.

The PAC tests are very fast, running in a second or two even in emulation,
so the 100x increased cost is mildly irritating but not a huge issue. The
bulk of the overhead is in the exec_sign_all test which does a fork() and
exec() per iteration.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/pac.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/pac.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/pac.c
index 5a07b3958fbf292b09c9d6b11b8f9db2880beeed..6d21b2fc758d80d0cd7d0db2859de3b308522cb4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/pac.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/pac.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
#include "../../kselftest_harness.h"
#include "helper.h"

-#define PAC_COLLISION_ATTEMPTS 10
+#define PAC_COLLISION_ATTEMPTS 1000
/*
* The kernel sets TBID by default. So bits 55 and above should remain
* untouched no matter what.

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