Re: [LTP] LTP: list of failures on 32bit and compat mode

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 16:26, Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:

> > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023, at 11:11, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > Following LTP syscalls failed on the i386 and arm environments with
> > > > Linux next / mainline kernels. The userspace is coming from Open
> > > > Embedded kirkstone.

> > > Thanks for the report and summary! I went through the list and found
> > > that most if not all of the bugs looks like incompatibilities
> > > with musl, not with 32-bit. It's probably not well tested with
> > > musl.

> > > Can you try again with glibc and see if there are any remaining
> > > issues then? LTP should probably be fixed to work with both, but
> > > if nobody has done that so far, it's likely that this has come
> > > up in the past but ran into problems upstreaming the fixes.

> > > > Anyone seeing this problem on 32-bit i386 or arm ?
> > > > You get to see "segfault" in the following logs that have been noticed
> > > > on i386 only.

> > > > This is not a new problem. We have been noticing these failures for a
> > > > really long time.
> > > > Would it be worth investigating the reason for failures on 32bit architectures ?

> > > > Test logs,
> > > > -----
> > > > [    0.000000] Linux version 6.3.0-rc5-next-20230406 (tuxmake@tuxmake)
> > > > (i686-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 11.3.0-11) 11.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils
> > > > for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC @1680759389


> > > > Test environment: i386
> > > > Suite: ltp-syscalls
> > > > Toolchain: gcc-11


> > > > fstatfs02
> > > > fstatfs02    1  TPASS  :  expected failure - errno = 9 : Bad file descriptor
> > > > fstatfs02    2  TBROK  :  tst_sig.c:232: unexpected signal SIGSEGV(11)
> > > > received (pid = 17841).
> > > > fstatfs02    3  TBROK  :  tst_sig.c:232: Remaining cases broken
> > This is IMHO using the old LTP API.
> > testcases/kernel/syscalls/fstatfs/fstatfs02.c was converted to new LTP API in
> > 5a8f89d35 ("syscalls/statfs02, fstatfs02: Convert to new API"), which was
> > released in 20220930. There is already newer release 20230127.
> > Generally it's safer to test mainline kernel with LTP master,
> > but this fix has already been in the latest LTP release 20230127.
> > And this error has been later fixed with
> > 492542072 ("syscalls/statfs02, fstatfs02: Accept segfault instead of EFAULT")
I'm sorry, I was wrong stating that unexpected signal SIGSEGV(11)
error was fixed by 492542072.

> Thanks for insite about the failed test investigations.


> > @Naresh which LTP do you use for testing? It must be some older LTP :(.

> Our build system started running LTP version 20230127.
I'm sorry, I obviously misinterpreted the test output as old LTP code.

> I will keep you posted with the latest findings.
Thanks!

Kind regards,
Petr

> - Naresh

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