[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test: Switch kernel pointer in tracemem() test

Eugene Loh eugene.loh at oracle.com
Mon May 22 19:28:08 UTC 2023


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On 3/6/23 16:14, eugene.loh at oracle.com wrote:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
>
> The tracemem() test dumped a portion of kernel memory, comparing
> different tracemem() output for the same kernel memory for consistency.
> Since it was looking at task_struct for the current thread, however,
> the underlying data could conceivably change as the test ran, leading
> to inconsistency and a false negative.
>
> Change the kernel memory to be the first 14 bytes of 'linux_banner,
> which should remain "Linux version ".
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> ---
>   test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.d   | 58 +++++--------------------
>   test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r   | 31 +++++++++----
>   test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r.p | 30 -------------
>   3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100755 test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r.p
>
> diff --git a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.d b/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.d
> index 41440518..202fb514 100644
> --- a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.d
> +++ b/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.d
> @@ -13,53 +13,19 @@
>   
>   #pragma D option quiet
>   
> -long long *p;
> -
>   BEGIN {
> -	/* pick some pointer to kernel memory */
> -	p = (long long *) curthread;
> -
> -	/* dump memory at this pointer */
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[ 0], p[ 1]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[ 2], p[ 3]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[ 4], p[ 5]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[ 6], p[ 7]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[ 8], p[ 9]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[10], p[11]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[12], p[13]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[14], p[15]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[16], p[17]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[18], p[19]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[20], p[21]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[22], p[23]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[24], p[25]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[26], p[27]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[28], p[29]);
> -	printf("%16.16x %16.16x\n", p[30], p[31]);
> -
> -	/* try tracemem() with this same pointer but various sizes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256);	/* 256 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256,  -1);	/* 256 bytes (arg2 < 0) */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256,   0);	/*   0 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256,  32);	/*  32 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256,  64);	/*  64 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256, 128);	/* 128 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256, 256);	/* 256 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256, 320);	/* 256 bytes (arg1 <= arg2) */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256, (unsigned char) 0x80);
> -				/* 128 bytes */
> -
> -	tracemem(p, 256, (signed char) 0x80);
> -				/* 256 bytes (arg2 < 0) */
> +	/* p = `linux_banner; */     /* first 14 chars are "Linux version " */
> +
> +	/* try tracemem() with various sizes */
> +
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14);     /* "Linux version ": 14 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14, -1); /* "Linux version ": 14 bytes (arg2 < 0) */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14,  0); /*                    0 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14,  2); /* "Li"            :  2 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14,  7); /* "Linux v"       :  7 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14, 12); /* "Linux versio"  : 12 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14, 14); /* "Linux version ": 14 bytes */
> +	tracemem(`linux_banner, 14, 15); /* "Linux version ": 14 bytes (arg1 <= arg2) */
>   
>   	exit(0);
>   }
> diff --git a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r b/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r
> index 1b24115f..2952158d 100644
> --- a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r
> +++ b/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r
> @@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
> -256 bytes
> -256 bytes
> -32 bytes
> -64 bytes
> -128 bytes
> -256 bytes
> -256 bytes
> -128 bytes
> -256 bytes
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20        Linux version
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20        Linux version
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69                                            Li
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76                             Linux v
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f              Linux versio
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20        Linux version
> +
> +             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f  0123456789abcdef
> +         0: 4c 69 6e 75 78 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20        Linux version
> +
> diff --git a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r.p b/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r.p
> deleted file mode 100755
> index 3f34b26b..00000000
> --- a/test/unittest/tracemem/tst.tracemem.r.p
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
> -#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
> -
> -# read data against which we will check tracemem() results
> -BEGIN {
> -        n = 0;    # count check results
> -        m = 0;    # count tracemem() results
> -}
> -NF == 2 {
> -        check[n] = $1; n++;
> -        check[n] = $2; n++;
> -        next;
> -}
> -
> -# if we have a blank line, report number of bytes compared, if any
> -NF == 0 && m > 0 { print 8 * m, "bytes" }
> -
> -# restart counting tracemem() output
> -NF == 0 { m = 0; next; }
> -
> -# comparison function
> -function mycomp(expect, actual) {
> -        if ( expect != actual )
> -                print "ERROR: expect", expect, "actual", actual;
> -}
> -
> -# tracemem output has two sets of 8 bytes each; reverse bytes for comparison
> -/:/ {
> -        mycomp( check[m++], $9$8$7$6$5$4$3$2);
> -        mycomp( check[m++], $17$16$15$14$13$12$11$10);
> -}



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