From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Test Project <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/2] tst_cgroup: tolerate ESRCH in cgroup_drain()
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:05:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajJjWSYh9Q31uWRb@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260616-fix_pids_errors-v2-2-a1e1d377f8b7@suse.com>
Hi!
> A process can die between reading cgroup.procs and writing its PID
> to the destination cgroup. When this happens, the kernel returns
> ESRCH which is a normal race condition, not a test infrastructure
> failure.
>
> Skip ESRCH errors instead of aborting with TBROK.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
> ---
> lib/tst_cgroup.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/tst_cgroup.c b/lib/tst_cgroup.c
> index a37bf1516aabfbcb9a02fedd6fddb98e85ecc653..f548c0e01cf60803ad4c1e898e7ec2d39dc33c84 100644
> --- a/lib/tst_cgroup.c
> +++ b/lib/tst_cgroup.c
> @@ -974,8 +974,12 @@ static void cgroup_drain(const enum tst_cg_ver ver,
> for (tok = strtok(pid_list, "\n"); tok; tok = strtok(NULL, "\n")) {
> ret = dprintf(fd, "%s", tok);
>
> - if (ret < (ssize_t)strlen(tok))
> + if (ret < (ssize_t)strlen(tok)) {
> + if (ret < 0 && errno == ESRCH)
> + continue;
Maybe we can print tst_res(TINFO, "Pid %s died during drain", tok);
here as well, so that when this happens we will have the information in
the test log.
Otherwise:
Reviewed-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
> tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "Failed to drain %s", tok);
> + }
> }
> SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> }
>
> --
> 2.51.0
>
>
> --
> Mailing list info: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-17 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-16 8:30 [LTP] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix sporadic failures in pids shell tests Andrea Cervesato
2026-06-16 8:30 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/2] pids: fix cleanup of orphaned pids_task1 children Andrea Cervesato
2026-06-16 10:10 ` [LTP] " linuxtestproject.agent
2026-06-16 8:30 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/2] tst_cgroup: tolerate ESRCH in cgroup_drain() Andrea Cervesato
2026-06-16 12:13 ` Li Wang
2026-06-17 9:05 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2026-06-17 9:15 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-06-17 9:36 ` Cyril Hrubis
2026-06-17 10:18 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
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