Re: [PATCH 3/3] selftests: add readfile(2) selftests
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <hidden>
Date: 2020-07-05 09:47:14
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From: Heinrich Schuchardt <hidden>
Date: 2020-07-05 09:47:14
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-man, lkml
On 7/5/20 9:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 03:41:48AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:quoted
On 7/4/20 4:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:quoted
Test the functionality of readfile(2) in various ways.Hello Greg, I expect readfile() to generate fanotify events FAN_OPEN_PERM, FAN_OPEN, FAN_ACCESS_PERM, FAN_ACCESS, FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE in this sequence.Yes, it should, I don't think I do anything unique here when it comes to vfs accesses that would go around those events.quoted
Looking at patch 1/3 you took care of notifications. Would this deserve testing here?Possibly, do we have other in-tree tests of syscalls that validate those events properly being created?
There is an inotify test in tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_freezer.c There is no fanotify test in tree test. An fanotify test will require running with CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The kselftest documentation does not describe that tests should be run as root. So it may be preferable to test that the inotify events IN_OPEN, IN_ACCESS, IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE are created for readfile(). Example coding is included in the inotify.7 and fanotify.7 manpages. Best regards Heinrich