On 7/27/24 00:49, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> On 07/25, Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) wrote:
>> Hello,
>> this small series aims to integrate test_dev_cgroup in test_progs so it
>> could be run automatically in CI. The new version brings a few differences
>> with the current one:
>> - test now uses directly syscalls instead of wrapping commandline tools
>>   into system() calls
>> - test_progs manipulates /dev/null (eg: redirecting test logs into it), so
>>   disabling access to it in the bpf program confuses the tests. To fix this,
>>   the first commit modifies the bpf program to allow access to char devices
>>   1:3 (/dev/null), and disable access to char devices 1:5 (/dev/zero)
>> - once test is converted, add a small subtest to also check for device type
>>   interpretation (char or block)
>> - paths used in mknod tests are now in /dev instead of /tmp: due to the CI
>>   runner organisation and mountpoints manipulations, trying to create nodes
>>   in /tmp leads to errors unrelated to the test (ie, mknod calls refused by
>>   kernel, not the bpf program). I don't understand exactly the root cause
>>   at the deepest point (all I see in CI is an -ENXIO error on mknod when 
>> trying to
>>   create the node in tmp, and I can not make sense out of it neither
>>   replicate it locally), so I would gladly take inputs from anyone more
>>   educated than me about this.
>>

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> Going forward, can you pls use [PATCH bpf-next] as a subject (or bpf when
> targeting bpf tree)? I'm not sure whether patchworks picks up
> plain [PATCH] messages..

Yes, my bad, I realized some time after sending that I may have missed some
proper patch prefix. I have just checked on patchwork and see this series and
the one I have sent before, so I guess there is no need to resend those, but
I'll make sure to apply the relevant prefix for next series.

Thanks,

Alexis

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Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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