From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jcmvbkbc@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/harness: Flush stdout before forking
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:15:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200917041519.3284582-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
The test harness forks() a child to run each test. Both the parent and
the child print to stdout using libc functions. That can lead to
duplicated (or more) output if the libc buffers are not flushed before
forking.
It's generally not seen when running programs directly, because stdout
will usually be line buffered when it's pointing to a terminal.
This was noticed when running the seccomp_bpf test, eg:
$ ./seccomp_bpf | tee test.log
$ grep -c "TAP version 13" test.log
2
But we only expect the TAP header to appear once.
It can be exacerbated using stdbuf to increase the buffer size:
$ stdbuf -o 1MB ./seccomp_bpf > test.log
$ grep -c "TAP version 13" test.log
13
The fix is simple, we just flush stdout & stderr before fork. Usually
stderr is unbuffered, but that can be changed, so flush it as well
just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
index 4f78e4805633..f19804df244c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
@@ -971,6 +971,11 @@ void __run_test(struct __fixture_metadata *f,
ksft_print_msg(" RUN %s%s%s.%s ...\n",
f->name, variant->name[0] ? "." : "", variant->name, t->name);
+
+ /* Make sure output buffers are flushed before fork */
+ fflush(stdout);
+ fflush(stderr);
+
t->pid = fork();
if (t->pid < 0) {
ksft_print_msg("ERROR SPAWNING TEST CHILD\n");
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-17 4:15 Michael Ellerman [this message]
2020-09-17 4:53 ` [PATCH] selftests/harness: Flush stdout before forking Max Filippov
2020-09-17 12:58 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-17 16:51 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-17 22:06 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-18 3:37 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-09-18 14:32 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-17 22:07 ` Kees Cook
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