linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] selftests/sigaltstack: Fix the sas test on old kernels

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Message-Id: <f3e739bf435beeaecbd5f038f1359d2eac6d1e63.1462296606.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue,  3 May 2016 10:31:50 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] selftests/sigaltstack: Fix the sas test on old kernels

The handling for old kernels was wrong.  Fix it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c b/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
index 57da8bfde60b..a98c3ef8141f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <alloca.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <assert.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 #ifndef SS_AUTODISARM
 #define SS_AUTODISARM  (1 << 4)
@@ -117,13 +118,19 @@ int main(void)
 	stk.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM;
 	err = sigaltstack(&stk, NULL);
 	if (err) {
-		perror("[FAIL]\tsigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM)");
-		stk.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK;
-	}
-	err = sigaltstack(&stk, NULL);
-	if (err) {
-		perror("[FAIL]\tsigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK)");
-		return EXIT_FAILURE;
+		if (errno == EINVAL) {
+			printf("[NOTE]\tThe running kernel doesn't support SS_AUTODISARM\n");
+			/*
+			 * If test cases for the !SS_AUTODISARM variant were
+			 * added, we could still run them.  We don't have any
+			 * test cases like that yet, so just exit and report
+			 * success.
+			 */
+			return 0;
+		} else {
+			perror("[FAIL]\tsigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK | SS_AUTODISARM)");
+			return EXIT_FAILURE;
+		}
 	}
 
 	ustack = mmap(NULL, SIGSTKSZ, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-- 
2.5.5