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From: Like Xu <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: jiaqiyan@google.com, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: selftests: arm64: Fix EINJ handling in sea_to_user
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:29:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818112920.26252-2-likexu@tencent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260818112920.26252-1-likexu@tencent.com>

sea_to_user drives EINJ injection through popen("echo ... > file"). A
failed write is hidden behind the shell pipeline, so a botched injection
is silently ignored and the test proceeds as if a poison were placed.
Drive the debugfs interface directly so a write failure is reported
rather than swallowed.

The EINJ support probe is also unreliable. It checks the ACPI EINJ table
with access(R_OK), but reading that table needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so the
check gives a false negative for unprivileged runs and skips a test that
could otherwise report a real problem. Probe by opening the debugfs
injection interface instead and classify errno: absence means EINJ is
not built or firmware lacks support, EACCES/EPERM means the test is not
running as root -- both are skips -- while anything else is a genuine
failure.

The injection path is only reachable through debugfs; the kernel EINJ
driver exposes no other interface, so the test must depend on it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/86y0le9cvz.wl-maz@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
---
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/sea_to_user.c | 45 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/sea_to_user.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/sea_to_user.c
index e96d8982c28b8..1c2a743ca8e23 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/sea_to_user.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/sea_to_user.c
@@ -81,25 +81,46 @@ static u64 translate_hva_to_hpa(unsigned long hva)
 
 static void write_einj_entry(const char *einj_path, u64 val)
 {
-	char cmd[256] = {0};
-	FILE *cmdfile = NULL;
+	char buf[32];
+	int fd, len, ret;
 
-	sprintf(cmd, "echo %#lx > %s", val, einj_path);
-	cmdfile = popen(cmd, "r");
+	fd = open(einj_path, O_WRONLY);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		ksft_exit_fail_perror(einj_path);
 
-	if (pclose(cmdfile) == 0)
-		ksft_print_msg("echo %#lx > %s - done\n", val, einj_path);
-	else
-		ksft_exit_fail_perror("Failed to write EINJ entry");
+	len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%#lx\n", val);
+	ret = write(fd, buf, len);
+	if (ret != len)
+		ksft_exit_fail_perror(einj_path);
+
+	close(fd);
+	ksft_print_msg("%#lx > %s - done\n", val, einj_path);
 }
 
 static void inject_uer(u64 hpa)
 {
-	if (access("/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/EINJ", R_OK) == -1)
-		ksft_test_result_skip("EINJ table no available in firmware");
+	int fd;
 
-	if (access(EINJ_ETYPE, R_OK | W_OK) == -1)
-		ksft_test_result_skip("EINJ module probably not loaded?");
+	/*
+	 * EINJ is exposed only through debugfs, and opening it tells us why it
+	 * is unusable far more reliably than access()-ing the ACPI EINJ table:
+	 * reading that table needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so access() gives a false
+	 * negative for unprivileged runs. Open the injection interface and let
+	 * errno say whether the test cannot run (skip) or genuinely failed.
+	 */
+	fd = open(EINJ_ETYPE, O_WRONLY);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		switch (errno) {
+		case ENOENT:
+			ksft_exit_skip("need CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ and firmware EINJ support\n");
+		case EACCES:
+		case EPERM:
+			ksft_exit_skip("EINJ requires running as root\n");
+		default:
+			ksft_exit_fail_perror(EINJ_ETYPE);
+		}
+	}
+	close(fd);
 
 	write_einj_entry(EINJ_ETYPE, ERROR_TYPE_MEMORY_UER);
 	write_einj_entry(EINJ_FLAGS, MASK_MEMORY_UER);
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-18 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-18 11:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: selftests: arm64: Make sea_to_user skip cleanly Like Xu
2026-08-18 11:29 ` Like Xu [this message]
2026-08-18 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: selftests: arm64: Skip sea_to_user without 1GB hugepages Like Xu
2026-08-18 11:36   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-18 12:49     ` Like Xu
2026-08-18 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: selftests: arm64: Skip sea_to_user when EINJ places no poison Like Xu
2026-08-18 11:41   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-18 12:50     ` Like Xu

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