linux-kernel - [PATCH] selftests/clone3: Correct log message for waitpid() failures

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:40:32 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/clone3: Correct log message for waitpid()
 failures

When logging an error from calling waitpid() on the child we print a
misleading error message saying that the error we report was returned by
the chilld. Fix this to say the error is from waitpid().

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
index 3c9bf0cd82a8..eb108727c35c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int call_clone3(uint64_t flags, size_t size, enum test_mode test_mode)
 			getpid(), pid);
 
 	if (waitpid(-1, &status, __WALL) < 0) {
-		ksft_print_msg("Child returned %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		ksft_print_msg("waitpid() returned %s\n", strerror(errno));
 		return -errno;
 	}
 	if (WEXITSTATUS(status))

---
base-commit: 8cb4a9a82b21623dbb4b3051dd30d98356cf95bc
change-id: 20240405-kselftest-clone3-waitpid-68c4833cf5ff

Best regards,
-- 
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>