linux/tools
Matt Bobrowski c80d797206 bpf/selftests: Fix test_tcpnotify_user
Based on a bisect, it appears that commit 7ee9887703 ("timers:
Implement the hierarchical pull model") has somehow inadvertently
broken BPF selftest test_tcpnotify_user. The error that is being
generated by this test is as follows:

	FAILED: Wrong stats Expected 10 calls, got 8

It looks like the change allows timer functions to be run on CPUs
different from the one they are armed on. The test had pinned itself
to CPU 0, and in the past the retransmit attempts also occurred on CPU
0. The test had set the max_entries attribute for
BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY to 2 and was calling
bpf_perf_event_output() with BPF_F_CURRENT_CPU, so the entry was
likely to be in range. With the change to allow timers to run on other
CPUs, the current CPU tasked with performing the retransmit might be
bumped and in turn fall out of range, as the event will be filtered
out via __bpf_perf_event_output() using:

    if (unlikely(index >= array->map.max_entries))
            return -E2BIG;

A possible change would be to explicitly set the max_entries attribute
for perf_event_map in test_tcpnotify_kern.c to a value that's at least
as large as the number of CPUs. As it turns out however, if the field
is left unset, then the libbpf will determine the number of CPUs available
on the underlying system and update the max_entries attribute accordingly
in map_set_def_max_entries().

A further problem with the test is that it has a thread that continues
running up until the program exits. The main thread cleans up some
LIBBPF data structures, while the other thread continues to use them,
which inevitably will trigger a SIGSEGV. This can be dealt with by
telling the thread to run for as long as necessary and doing a
pthread_join on it before exiting the program.

Finally, I don't think binding the process to CPU 0 is meaningful for
this test any more, so get rid of that.

Fixes: 435f90a338 ("selftests/bpf: add a test case for sock_ops perf-event notification")
Signed-off-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aJ8kHhwgATmA3rLf@google.com
2025-08-15 13:05:29 -07:00
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accounting tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version 2025-08-02 12:01:41 -07:00
arch x86/rdrand: Disable RDSEED on AMD Cyan Skillfish 2025-07-08 21:33:26 +02:00
bootconfig bootconfig: Fix unaligned access when building footer 2025-07-24 22:16:48 +09:00
bpf bpftool: Add bash completion for token argument 2025-08-01 18:03:23 -07:00
build tools: Remove libcrypto dependency 2025-06-26 10:51:41 -07:00
certs
cgroup memcg_slabinfo: Fix use of PG_slab 2025-07-23 11:55:22 +02:00
counter
crypto
debugging
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv tools/hv: fcopy: Fix irregularities with size of ring buffer 2025-07-15 06:25:33 +00:00
iio
include ARM: 2025-07-30 17:14:01 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Add the ability to suppress perf event enablement 2025-08-07 09:01:41 -07:00
memory-model
mm tools/mm: add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR 2025-07-09 22:41:53 -07:00
net tools: ynl-gen: print setters for multi-val attrs 2025-07-24 17:28:49 -07:00
objtool Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
pcmcia
perf perf bpf-filter: Enable events manually 2025-08-07 09:03:44 -07:00
power tools/power turbostat: version 2025.09.09 2025-08-10 09:02:36 +03:00
rcu
sched tools/sched: Add dl_bw_dump.py for printing bandwidth accounting info 2025-07-14 10:59:33 +02:00
sched_ext sched_ext: Add support for cgroup bandwidth control interface 2025-06-20 17:03:51 -10:00
scripts tools/build: Fix s390(x) cross-compilation with clang 2025-07-08 09:19:23 +02:00
sound
spi
testing bpf/selftests: Fix test_tcpnotify_user 2025-08-15 13:05:29 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing rtla/tests: Test timerlat -P option using actions 2025-07-28 10:22:39 -04:00
usb
verification rv: Add opid per-cpu monitor 2025-07-28 16:47:35 -04:00
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