[PATCH 4.19 223/421] selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-19 16:24:11
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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> [ Upstream commit f36ef407628835a7d7fb3d235b1f1aac7022d9a3 ] Patch series "selftests/vm/pkeys: Bug fixes and a new test". There has been a lot of activity on the x86 front around the XSAVE architecture which is used to context-switch processor state (among other things). In addition, AMD has recently joined the protection keys club by adding processor support for PKU. The AMD implementation helped uncover a kernel bug around the PKRU "init state", which actually applied to Intel's implementation but was just harder to hit. This series adds a test which is expected to help find this class of bug both on AMD and Intel. All the work around pkeys on x86 also uncovered a few bugs in the selftest. This patch (of 4): The "random" pkey allocation code currently does the good old: srand((unsigned int)time(NULL)); *But*, it unfortunately does this on every random pkey allocation. There may be thousands of these a second. time() has a one second resolution. So, each time alloc_random_pkey() is called, the PRNG is *RESET* to time(). This is nasty. Normally, if you do: srand(<ANYTHING>); foo = rand(); bar = rand(); You'll be quite guaranteed that 'foo' and 'bar' are different. But, if you do: srand(1); foo = rand(); srand(1); bar = rand(); You are quite guaranteed that 'foo' and 'bar' are the *SAME*. The recent "fix" effectively forced the test case to use the same "random" pkey for the whole test, unless the test run crossed a second boundary. Only run srand() once at program startup. This explains some very odd and persistent test failures I've been seeing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611164153.91B76FB8@viggo.jf.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611164155.192D00FF@viggo.jf.intel.com Fixes: 6e373263ce07 ("selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really random") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted> Cc: Ram Pai <redacted> Cc: Sandipan Das <redacted> Cc: Florian Weimer <redacted> Cc: "Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario" <redacted> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Suchanek <redacted> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c
index b8778960da10..27661302a698 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c@@ -613,7 +613,6 @@ int alloc_random_pkey(void) int nr_alloced = 0; int random_index; memset(alloced_pkeys, 0, sizeof(alloced_pkeys)); - srand((unsigned int)time(NULL)); /* allocate every possible key and make a note of which ones we got */ max_nr_pkey_allocs = NR_PKEYS;
@@ -1479,6 +1478,8 @@ int main(void) { int nr_iterations = 22; + srand((unsigned int)time(NULL)); + setup_handlers(); printf("has pku: %d\n", cpu_has_pku());
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