The acct() system call enables or disables process accounting. If accounting is turned on, records for each terminating process are appended to a specified filename as it terminates. An argument of NULL causes accounting to be turned off.

This patch will add a test for the acct() syscall.

Signed-off-by: Abdulrasaq Lawani abdulrasaqolawani@gmail.com --- Changes in v4: - Add SPDX License identifier to test Makefile - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240723-kselftest-acct-syscall-v3-1-16f332498a9e@...

Changes in v3: - Add geteuid to check if test is ran as root. - Simplify error conditions for acct function. - Remove unecessary messages. - Add more informative messages. - Update commit message. - Add error test case for file creation failure. - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240630-kselftest-acct-syscall-v2-1-b30bbe2a69cd@...

Changes in v2: Add testcases to test error conditions. Add kselftest function for reporting results.

- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240622-kselftest-acct-syscall-v1-1-d270b5be8d37@... --- tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/acct/.gitignore | 3 ++ tools/testing/selftests/acct/Makefile | 5 ++ tools/testing/selftests/acct/acct_syscall.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile index 9039f3709aff..45a58ef5ad92 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +TARGETS += acct TARGETS += alsa TARGETS += amd-pstate TARGETS += arm64 diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/acct/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7e78aac19038 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +acct_syscall +config +process_log \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/acct/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7e025099cf65 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +TEST_GEN_PROGS := acct_syscall +CFLAGS += -Wall + +include ../lib.mk \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/acct/acct_syscall.c b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/acct_syscall.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e44e8fe1f4a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/acct/acct_syscall.c @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +/* kselftest for acct() system call + * The acct() system call enables or disables process accounting. + */ + +#include <stdio.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <sys/wait.h> + +#include "../kselftest.h" + +int main(void) +{ + char filename[] = "process_log"; + FILE *fp; + pid_t child_pid; + int sz; + + // Setting up kselftest framework + ksft_print_header(); + ksft_set_plan(1); + + // Check if test is run a root + if (geteuid()) { + ksft_test_result_skip("This test needs root to run!\n"); + return 1; + } + + // Create file to log closed processes + fp = fopen(filename, "w"); + + if (!fp) { + ksft_test_result_error("%s.\n", strerror(errno)); + ksft_finished(); + return 1; + } + + acct(filename); + + // Handle error conditions + if (errno) { + ksft_test_result_error("%s.\n", strerror(errno)); + fclose(fp); + ksft_finished(); + return 1; + } + + // Create child process and wait for it to terminate. + + child_pid = fork(); + + if (child_pid < 0) { + ksft_test_result_error("Creating a child process to log failed\n"); + acct(NULL); + return 1; + } else if (child_pid > 0) { + wait(NULL); + fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_END); + sz = ftell(fp); + + acct(NULL); + + if (sz <= 0) { + ksft_test_result_fail("Terminated child process not logged\n"); + ksft_exit_fail(); + return 1; + } + + ksft_test_result_pass("Successfully logged terminated process.\n"); + fclose(fp); + ksft_exit_pass(); + return 0; + } + + return 1; +}

--- base-commit: 50736169ecc8387247fe6a00932852ce7b057083 change-id: 20240622-kselftest-acct-syscall-2d90f7666b1e

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