[PATCH] selftests/coredump: Fix "socket_detect_userspace_client" test failure

From: Nam Cao
Date: Fri Jun 20 2025 - 07:04:40 EST


The coredump.socket_detect_userspace_client test occasionally fails:
# RUN coredump.socket_detect_userspace_client ...
# stackdump_test.c:500:socket_detect_userspace_client:Expected 0 (0) != WIFEXITED(status) (0)
# socket_detect_userspace_client: Test terminated by assertion
# FAIL coredump.socket_detect_userspace_client
not ok 3 coredump.socket_detect_userspace_client

because there is no guarantee that client's write() happens before server's
close(). The client gets terminated SIGPIPE, and thus the test fails.

Add a read() to server to make sure server's close() doesn't happen before
client's write().

Fixes: 7b6724fe9a6b ("selftests/coredump: add tests for AF_UNIX coredumps")
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/coredump/stackdump_test.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/stackdump_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/stackdump_test.c
index 9984413be9f06..68f8e479ac368 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/stackdump_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/stackdump_test.c
@@ -461,10 +461,15 @@ TEST_F(coredump, socket_detect_userspace_client)
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

+ ret = read(fd_coredump, &c, 1);
+
close(fd_coredump);
close(fd_server);
close(fd_peer_pidfd);
close(fd_core_file);
+
+ if (ret < 1)
+ _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
self->pid_coredump_server = pid_coredump_server;
--
2.39.5