Thread (10 messages) flat view 10 messages, 5 authors, 2018-10-31

Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/powerpc: Skip test instead of failing

From: Tyrel Datwyler <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-23 20:43:12

On 10/23/2018 01:23 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Current core-pkey selftest fails if the test runs without privileges to
write into the core pattern file (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern). This
causes the test to fail and give the impression that the subsystem being
tested is broken, when, in fact, the test is being executed without the
proper privileges. This is the current error:

	test: core_pkey
	tags: git_version:v4.19-3-g9e3363be9bce-dirty
	Error writing to core_pattern file: Permission denied
	failure: core_pkey

This patch simply skips this test if it runs without the proper privileges,
avoiding this undesired failure.

CC: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c
index e23e2e199eb4..e07949120fc8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c
@@ -352,17 +352,11 @@ static int write_core_pattern(const char *core_pattern)
 	FILE *f;

 	f = fopen(core_pattern_file, "w");
-	if (!f) {
-		perror("Error writing to core_pattern file");
-		return TEST_FAIL;
-	}
+	SKIP_IF(!f);

 	ret = fwrite(core_pattern, 1, len, f);
 	fclose(f);
-	if (ret != len) {
-		perror("Error writing to core_pattern file");
-		return TEST_FAIL;
-	}
+	SKIP_IF(ret != len);
If we don't have proper privileges we should fail on the open, right? So wouldn't we still want to fail on the write if something goes wrong?

-Tyrel
 	return TEST_PASS;
 }
  
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