From: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, kuba@kernel.org,
horms@kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
allison.henderson@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next v1 3/3] selftests: rds: Fix tcpdump segfault in rds selftests
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 22:58:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260308055835.1338257-4-achender@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260308055835.1338257-1-achender@kernel.org>
net/rds/test.py sees a segfault in tcpdump when executed through the
ksft runner.
[ 21.903713] tcpdump[1469]: segfault at 0 ip 000072100e99126d
sp 00007ffccf740fd0 error 4
[ 21.903721] in libc.so.6[16a26d,7798b149a000+188000]
[ 21.905074] in libc.so.6[16a26d,72100e84f000+188000] likely on
CPU 5 (core 5, socket 0)
[ 21.905084] Code: 00 0f 85 a0 00 00 00 48 83 c4 38 89 d8 5b 41 5c
41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 05 91 8b 09 00 8b 4d ac
64 89 08 <41> 0f b6 07 83 e8 2b a8 fd 0f 84 54 ff ff ff 49 8b 36 4c 89
ff e8
[ 21.906760] likely on CPU 9 (core 9, socket 0)
[ 21.913469] Code: 00 0f 85 a0 00 00 00 48 83 c4 38 89 d8 5b 41 5c 41
5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 05 91 8b 09 00 8b 4d ac 64 89
08 <41> 0f b6 07 83 e8 2b a8 fd 0f 84 54 ff ff ff 49 8b 36 4c 89 ff e8
The os.fork() call creates extra complexity because it forks the entire
process including the python interpreter. ip() then calls cmd() which
creates a subprocess.Popen. We can avoid the extra layering by simply
calling subprocess.Popen directly. Track the process handles directly
and terminate them at cleanup rather than relying on killall. Further
tcpdump's -Z flag attempts to change savefile ownership, which is not
supported by the 9p protocol. Fix this by writing pcap captures to
"/tmp" during the test and move them to the log directory after tcpdump
exits.
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py
index 8256afe6ad6f..93e23e8b256c 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ import signal
import socket
import subprocess
import sys
-from pwd import getpwuid
-from os import stat
+import tempfile
+import shutil
# Allow utils module to be imported from different directory
this_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ ip(f"-n {NET1} route add {addrs[0][0]}/32 dev {VETH1}")
ip(f"netns exec {NET0} ping -c 1 {addrs[1][0]}")
# Start a packet capture on each network
+tcpdump_procs = []
for net in [NET0, NET1]:
- tcpdump_pid = os.fork()
- if tcpdump_pid == 0:
- pcap = logdir+'/'+net+'.pcap'
- subprocess.check_call(['touch', pcap])
- user = getpwuid(stat(pcap).st_uid).pw_name
- ip(f"netns exec {net} /usr/sbin/tcpdump -Z {user} -i any -w {pcap}")
- sys.exit(0)
+ pcap = logdir+'/'+net+'.pcap'
+ fd, pcap_tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".pcap", prefix=f"{net}-", dir="/tmp")
+ p = subprocess.Popen(
+ ['ip', 'netns', 'exec', net,
+ '/usr/sbin/tcpdump', '-i', 'any', '-w', pcap_tmp])
+ tcpdump_procs.append((p, pcap_tmp, pcap, fd))
# simulate packet loss, duplication and corruption
for net, iface in [(NET0, VETH0), (NET1, VETH1)]:
@@ -248,7 +248,11 @@ for s in sockets:
print(f"getsockopt(): {nr_success}/{nr_error}")
print("Stopping network packet captures")
-subprocess.check_call(['killall', '-q', 'tcpdump'])
+for p, pcap_tmp, pcap, fd in tcpdump_procs:
+ p.terminate()
+ p.wait()
+ os.close(fd)
+ shutil.move(pcap_tmp, pcap)
# We're done sending and receiving stuff, now let's check if what
# we received is what we sent.
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-08 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-08 5:58 [PATCH net-next v1 0/3] selftests: rds: ksft cleanups Allison Henderson
2026-03-08 5:58 ` [PATCH net-next v1 1/3] selftests: rds: Fix pylint warnings Allison Henderson
2026-03-08 5:58 ` [PATCH net-next v1 2/3] selftests: rds: Add ksft timeout Allison Henderson
2026-03-08 5:58 ` Allison Henderson [this message]
2026-03-11 1:53 ` [PATCH net-next v1 0/3] selftests: rds: ksft cleanups Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 4:56 ` Allison Henderson
2026-03-12 0:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-16 0:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 2:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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