[PATCH 2/2] selftests/bpf: Skip bpffs debug iter checks when unavailable in test_bpffs
From: Sun Jian
Date: Tue Mar 10 2026 - 06:22:21 EST
maps.debug/progs.debug may be inaccessible or absent (EPERM/EACCES/ENOENT)
in some environments, which used to abort test_bpffs before it exercised
the pin and rename checks. Treat these errors as "iter unavailable", log
an INFO message, and continue with the core bpffs tests.
Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpffs.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpffs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpffs.c
index e8021ff0581c..95a7d2582ba7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpffs.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_bpffs.c
@@ -11,15 +11,18 @@
/* TDIR must be in a location we can create a directory in. */
#define TDIR "/tmp/test_bpffs_testdir"
-static int read_iter(char *file)
+static int read_iter(const char *file, int *save_errno)
{
/* 1024 should be enough to get contiguous 4 "iter" letters at some point */
char buf[1024];
int fd, len;
fd = open(file, O_RDONLY);
- if (fd < 0)
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ if (save_errno)
+ *save_errno = errno;
return -1;
+ }
while ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1)) > 0) {
buf[len] = '\0';
if (strstr(buf, "iter")) {
@@ -27,10 +30,33 @@ static int read_iter(char *file)
return 0;
}
}
+ if (save_errno)
+ *save_errno = (len < 0) ? errno : 0;
close(fd);
return -1;
}
+static bool is_iter_skip_err(int err, int serrno)
+{
+ return err && (serrno == EPERM || serrno == EACCES || serrno == ENOENT);
+}
+
+static int read_iter_or_skip(const char *file)
+{
+ int serrno = 0;
+ int err = read_iter(file, &serrno);
+
+ if (is_iter_skip_err(err, serrno)) {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "INFO: %s unavailable (%d), skipping iter check\n",
+ file,
+ serrno);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ return err;
+}
+
static int fn(void)
{
struct stat a, b, c;
@@ -69,13 +95,16 @@ static int fn(void)
if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "mount bpffs " TDIR "/fs2"))
goto out;
- err = read_iter(TDIR "/fs1/maps.debug");
- if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "reading " TDIR "/fs1/maps.debug"))
+ err = read_iter_or_skip(TDIR "/fs1/maps.debug");
+ if (err) {
+ ASSERT_OK(err, "reading " TDIR "/fs1/maps.debug");
goto out;
- err = read_iter(TDIR "/fs2/progs.debug");
- if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "reading " TDIR "/fs2/progs.debug"))
+ }
+ err = read_iter_or_skip(TDIR "/fs2/progs.debug");
+ if (err) {
+ ASSERT_OK(err, "reading " TDIR "/fs2/progs.debug");
goto out;
-
+ }
err = mkdir(TDIR "/fs1/a", 0777);
if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "creating " TDIR "/fs1/a"))
goto out;
--
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