[PATCH 2/4] selftests/arm: Add signal tests

Dev Jain dev.jain at arm.com
Tue Apr 9 21:43:16 PDT 2024


On 4/7/24 02:58, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> On 4/5/24 1:44 PM, Dev Jain wrote:
>> This patch introduces two signal tests, and generic test wrappers similar to
>> selftests/arm64/signal directory, along with the mangling testcases found
>> therein. arm_cpsr, dumped by the kernel to user space in the ucontext structure
>> to the signal handler, is mangled with. The kernel must spot this illegal
>> attempt and the testcases are expected to terminate via SEGV.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
>> ---
>>   .../selftests/arm/signal/test_signals.c       |  27 ++
>>   .../selftests/arm/signal/test_signals.h       |  74 +++++
>>   .../selftests/arm/signal/test_signals_utils.c | 257 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   .../selftests/arm/signal/test_signals_utils.h | 128 +++++++++
>>   .../signal/testcases/mangle_cpsr_aif_bits.c   |  33 +++
>>   .../mangle_cpsr_invalid_compat_toggle.c       |  29 ++
> Too many files/tests in one patch. Break this patch logically into multiple
> tests for easy to review and follow.


In this particular case, I am not sure about the utility of doing that.

My idea was to put the wrapper infrastructure and the individual testcases

into a single patch for ease of comparison with selftests/arm64; this will

actually help in pointing out mistakes or suggesting improvements.

>
>>   6 files changed, 548 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/test_signals.c
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/test_signals.h
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/test_signals_utils.c
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/test_signals_utils.h
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/testcases/mangle_cpsr_aif_bits.c
>>   create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm/signal/testcases/mangle_cpsr_invalid_compat_toggle.c



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