Re: [PATCH v3] ksefltests: pidfd: Fix wait_states: Test terminated by timeout

[Shuah Khan]

On 8/31/22 21:10, Li Zhijian wrote:
> 0Day/LKP observed that the kselftest blocks forever since one of the
> pidfd_wait doesn't terminate in 1 of 30 runs. After digging into
> the source, we found that it blocks at:
> ASSERT_EQ(sys_waitid(P_PIDFD, pidfd, &info, WCONTINUED, NULL), 0);
>
> wait_states has below testing flow:
>    CHILD                 PARENT
>    ---------------+--------------
> 1 STOP itself
> 2                   WAIT for CHILD STOPPED
> 3                   SIGNAL CHILD to CONT
> 4 CONT
> 5 STOP itself
> 5'                  WAIT for CHILD CONT
> 6                   WAIT for CHILD STOPPED
>
> The problem is that the kernel cannot ensure the order of 5 and 5', once
> 5 goes first, the test will fail.
>
> we can reproduce it by:
> $ while true; do make run_tests -C pidfd; done
>
> Introduce a blocking read in child process to make sure the parent can
> check its WCONTINUED.
>
> CC: Philip Li <philip.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Sorry for the delay. Now applied to linux-kselftest fixes for rc4

thanks,
-- Shuah