From: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Harvey <mharvey@jumptrading.com>,
kernel-dev@igalia.com, Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v1 4/5] selftests/filesystems: add fuse symlink caching test
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 14:11:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708131122.2917-5-luis@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260708131122.2917-1-luis@igalia.com>
This patch adds a simple test that allows to verify that, when resolving a
symlink, user-space is called only the first time when caching is enabled
or, if caching is disabled, every time the symlink resolution is requested.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
---
.../selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore | 1 +
.../selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile | 6 +-
.../selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_fs.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++
.../filesystems/fuse/symlink_test.sh | 52 ++++++++
4 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_fs.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_test.sh
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore
index 3e72e742d08e..cfdc5ca3ded4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
fuse_mnt
fusectl_test
+symlink_fs
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile
index 422cd1b1688d..342da0878006 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
CFLAGS += -Wall -O2 -g $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
TEST_GEN_PROGS := fusectl_test
-TEST_GEN_FILES := fuse_mnt
+TEST_PROGS := symlink_test.sh
+TEST_GEN_FILES := fuse_mnt symlink_fs
include ../../lib.mk
@@ -19,3 +20,6 @@ endif
$(OUTPUT)/fuse_mnt: CFLAGS += $(VAR_CFLAGS)
$(OUTPUT)/fuse_mnt: LDLIBS += $(VAR_LDLIBS)
+
+$(OUTPUT)/symlink_fs: CFLAGS += $(VAR_CFLAGS)
+$(OUTPUT)/symlink_fs: LDLIBS += $(VAR_LDLIBS)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_fs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_fs.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1aee26c91b3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_fs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Simple filesystem to test FUSE symlink cache
+ *
+ * This is a simple FUSE filesystem that contains two objects: a file named
+ * 'file' and a symlink to that file named 'link'. Whenever the ->readlink() is
+ * executed to resolve 'link' a counter will be incremented. A ->read() to any
+ * filesystem object will return the value in this counter.
+ *
+ * A '--cache' argument will allow to enable symlink caching (disabled by
+ * default). This means that, if caching is enabled, resolving a symlink will
+ * only call into user-space the first time.
+ */
+
+#define FUSE_USE_VERSION 31
+
+#include <fuse.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+#define FILE "file"
+#define LINK "link"
+
+static struct options {
+ int cache_symlinks;
+} options;
+
+static const struct fuse_opt option_spec[] = {
+ { "--cache", offsetof(struct options, cache_symlinks), 1 },
+ FUSE_OPT_END
+};
+
+static int readlink_counter = 0;
+
+static void *symlink_init(struct fuse_conn_info *conn, struct fuse_config *cfg)
+{
+ if (options.cache_symlinks)
+ fuse_set_feature_flag(conn, FUSE_CAP_CACHE_SYMLINKS);
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static int symlink_getattr(const char *path, struct stat *stbuf,
+ struct fuse_file_info *fi)
+{
+ int res = 0;
+
+ memset(stbuf, 0, sizeof(struct stat));
+ if (strcmp(path, "/") == 0) {
+ stbuf->st_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
+ stbuf->st_nlink = 2;
+ } else if (strcmp(path + 1, FILE) == 0) {
+ char data[64];
+
+ stbuf->st_mode = S_IFREG | 0444;
+ stbuf->st_nlink = 1;
+ stbuf->st_size = sprintf(data, "%d\n", readlink_counter);
+ } else if (strcmp(path + 1, LINK) == 0) {
+ stbuf->st_mode = S_IFLNK | 0444;
+ stbuf->st_nlink = 1;
+ stbuf->st_size = strlen(FILE);
+ } else
+ res = -ENOENT;
+
+ return res;
+}
+
+static int symlink_readlink(const char *path, char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+ if (strcmp(path + 1, LINK) != 0)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ memcpy(buf, FILE, strlen(FILE));
+ readlink_counter++;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int symlink_read(const char *path, char *buf, size_t sz, off_t off,
+ struct fuse_file_info *fi)
+{
+ char data[64];
+ int len;
+
+ len = sprintf(data, "%d\n", readlink_counter);
+ memcpy(buf, data, len);
+
+ return len;
+}
+
+static const struct fuse_operations symlink_oper = {
+ .init = symlink_init,
+ .getattr = symlink_getattr,
+ .readlink = symlink_readlink,
+ .read = symlink_read,
+};
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int ret;
+ struct fuse_args args = FUSE_ARGS_INIT(argc, argv);
+
+ options.cache_symlinks = 0;
+ if (fuse_opt_parse(&args, &options, option_spec, NULL) == -1)
+ return 1;
+
+ ret = fuse_main(args.argc, args.argv, &symlink_oper, NULL);
+ fuse_opt_free_args(&args);
+
+ return ret;
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_test.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..546541c1920e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/symlink_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+exit_cleanup()
+{
+ fusermount -u ./mnt
+ rmdir ./mnt
+}
+
+assert_value ()
+{
+ if [ $1 -ne $2 ]; then
+ echo "FAILED"
+ echo $3
+ exit 1
+ fi
+}
+
+set -e
+
+trap exit_cleanup EXIT
+
+mkdir -p mnt
+
+./symlink_fs ./mnt
+
+echo -n "Testing symlink without cached: "
+
+# When symlink caching is disabled every access to a symlink is expected to
+# result in a call to user-space
+for i in $(seq 1 10); do
+ readlink ./mnt/link > /dev/null
+done
+
+res=$(cat ./mnt/file)
+assert_value $res $i "Got $res, expected $i"
+echo "PASSED"
+
+fusermount -u ./mnt
+
+./symlink_fs --cache ./mnt
+
+echo -n "Testing symlink with cache: "
+
+# With caching enabled, there will only be a single call into user-space
+for i in $(seq 0 10); do
+ readlink ./mnt/link > /dev/null
+done
+
+res=$(cat ./mnt/file)
+assert_value 1 $res "Got $ res, expected 1"
+echo "PASSED"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 13:11 [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] fuse: caches documentation and testing Luis Henriques
2026-07-08 13:11 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/5] Documentation: fuse: add document on caches being used by FUSE Luis Henriques
2026-07-08 13:11 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/5] selftests/filesystems: convert fusectl test to fuse3 Luis Henriques
2026-07-08 13:11 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/5] selftests/filesystems: check that fusectlfs is mounted Luis Henriques
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