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Re: [PATCHv9 2/2] selftest/x86: add mremap vdso test

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv9 2/2] selftest/x86: add mremap vdso test
Date 2016-06-17 10:10 +0200
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* Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> Should print on success:
> [root@localhost ~]# ./test_mremap_vdso_32
> 	AT_SYSINFO_EHDR is 0xf773f000
> [NOTE]	Moving vDSO: [f773f000, f7740000] -> [a000000, a001000]
> [OK]
> Or segfault if landing was bad (before patches):
> [root@localhost ~]# ./test_mremap_vdso_32
> 	AT_SYSINFO_EHDR is 0xf774f000
> [NOTE]	Moving vDSO: [f774f000, f7750000] -> [a000000, a001000]
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Yeah, so I changed my mind again, I still don't like that the testcase faults on 
old kernels:

 triton:~/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86> ./test_mremap_vdso_32 
         AT_SYSINFO_EHDR is 0xf7786000
 [NOTE]  Moving vDSO: [0xf7786000, 0xf7787000] -> [0xf7781000, 0xf7782000]
 Segmentation fault

How do I know that this testcase is special and that a segmentation fault in this 
case means that I'm running it on a too old kernel and that it's not some other 
unexpected failure in the test?

At minimum please run it behind fork() and catch the -SIGSEGV child exit:

  mremap(0xf7747000, 4096, 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE|MREMAP_FIXED, 0xf7742000) = 0xf7742000
  --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0xf7747be9} ---
  +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

and print:

  [FAIL] mremap() of the vDSO does not work on this kernel!

or such.

Ok?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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Re: [PATCHv9 2/2] selftest/x86: add mremap vdso test Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-06-17 10:10 +0200

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