linux/tools/testing
Farid Zakaria 277d787feb
selftests/exec: add binfmt_misc bpf-backed handler test
Exercise the bpf-backed ('B') binfmt_misc handlers end to end. A handler
is a struct binfmt_misc_ops struct_ops map; the test loads and attaches
it (which publishes it by name), activates it with a 'B' entry, and
checks that a matched binary is routed to the interpreter the program
selected via bpf_binprm_set_interp().

Two self-contained cases are covered:

  - bpf_interp: the match program matches a synthetic aarch64 ELF header
    from the prefetched bprm->buf and the load program routes it to a
    fixed interpreter of its choosing.
  - nix_origin: the match program parses the program headers to commit
    only to a "$ORIGIN/..."-relative PT_INTERP and the load program
    resolves it to an interpreter co-located with the binary -- the
    relocatable-loader case the kernel ELF loader cannot express. The
    relocatable binary is linked with PT_INTERP set to the literal
    "$ORIGIN/binfmt_bpf_interp" (-Wl,--dynamic-linker), which the kernel
    cannot resolve on its own.

Both route to a small test interpreter that prints a marker, proving the
program-selected interpreter actually ran.

The bpf objects are compiled against the running kernel's BTF: the
Makefile generates vmlinux.h with bpftool and the harness links libbpf.
Override CLANG/BPFTOOL/VMLINUX_BTF/LIBBPF_CFLAGS/LIBBPF_LDLIBS as needed.
The bpf pieces are only built when clang, bpftool, the vmlinux BTF and
libbpf are all present (HAVE_BPF_TOOLCHAIN=y forces them) so the other
exec selftests keep building without a bpf toolchain.

Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> says:

Adapted to the two-op contract: 'B' entries carry the handler name in
the interpreter field, both programs are sleepable, the match programs
decide. nix_origin reads PT_INTERP from the match program and load
returns zero on success. Skip on kernels without binfmt_misc_ops in BTF.
Build the bpf pieces only when the toolchain is present and gitignore
the generated artifacts.

Signed-off-by: Farid Zakaria <farid.m.zakaria@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714-work-bpf-binfmt_misc-v2-9-57b7529c002c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-08-03 10:08:42 +02:00
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crypto/chacha20-s390 crypto: drbg - Fold include/crypto/drbg.h into crypto/drbg.c 2026-05-07 16:09:59 +08:00
cxl Replace <linux/mod_devicetable.h> by more specific <linux/device-id/*.h> (c files) 2026-07-03 07:38:17 +02:00
fault-injection
ktest ktest: Add logfile to failure directory 2026-04-20 15:23:13 -04:00
kunit kunit:tool: Don't write to stdout when it should be disabled 2026-06-07 20:10:30 -06:00
memblock liveupdate: updates for 7.2-rc1 2026-06-21 09:46:14 -07:00
nvdimm tools/testing/nvdimm: Use per-DIMM device handle 2025-11-03 16:47:13 -06:00
radix-tree MAINTAINERS: update Liam's email address 2026-04-27 05:54:25 -07:00
rbtree
scatterlist mm: remove nth_page() 2025-09-21 14:22:10 -07:00
selftests selftests/exec: add binfmt_misc bpf-backed handler test 2026-08-03 10:08:42 +02:00
shared mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk 2026-06-03 18:20:43 +02:00
vma mm/vma: eliminate mmap_action->error_hook, introduce error_override 2026-06-04 14:45:00 -07:00
vsock vsock/test: add test for small packets under pressure 2026-07-21 12:11:06 +02:00