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From: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
	"Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>,
	"kernel test robot" <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, lkp@intel.com,
	oe-lkp@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/2] selftests/landlock: Filter dealloc records in audit_count_records()
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 12:51:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513105112.140137-1-mic@digikod.net> (raw)

audit_count_records() counts both AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN allocation and
deallocation records in records.domain .  Domain deallocation is tied to
asynchronous credential freeing via kworker threads
(landlock_put_ruleset_deferred), so the dealloc record can arrive after
the drain in audit_init() and after the preceding audit_match_record()
call.  This causes flaky failures in tests that assert an exact
records.domain count: a stale dealloc record from a previous test's
domain inflates the count by one.

Observed on x86_64 under build configurations that delay the kworker
firing the dealloc callback (e.g. coverage instrumentation): the
audit_layout1 tests in fs_test.c intermittently saw records.domain == 2
where 1 was expected.  The fix is in the shared helper, so those
existing checks become robust without needing a fs_test.c edit.

Filter audit_count_records() with a regex to skip records containing
deallocation status.  The remaining domain records (allocation, emitted
synchronously during landlock_log_denial()) are deterministic.
Deallocation records are already tested explicitly via
matches_log_domain_deallocated() in audit_test.c, which uses its own
domain-ID-based filtering and longer timeout.

With this filter in place, re-add the records.domain == 0 checks that
were removed in commit 3647a4977fb7 ("selftests/landlock: Drain stale
audit records on init") as a workaround for this race.

Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Depends-on: 07c2572a8757 ("selftests/landlock: Skip stale records in audit_match_record()")
Fixes: 6a500b22971c ("selftests/landlock: Add tests for audit flags and domain IDs")
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h      | 39 ++++++++++++-------
 tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c |  2 +
 .../testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c  |  1 +
 .../landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c      |  1 +
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h
index 834005b2b0f0..699aed5ffab4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h
@@ -381,18 +381,24 @@ struct audit_records {
 };
 
 /*
- * WARNING: Do not assert records.domain == 0 without a preceding
- * audit_match_record() call.  Domain deallocation records are emitted
- * asynchronously from kworker threads and can arrive after the drain in
- * audit_init(), corrupting the domain count.  A preceding audit_match_record()
- * call consumes stale records while scanning, making the assertion safe in
- * practice because stale deallocation records arrive before the expected access
- * records.
+ * Counts remaining audit records by type, skipping domain deallocation records.
+ * Deallocation records are emitted asynchronously from kworker threads after a
+ * previous test's child has exited, so they can arrive after the drain in
+ * audit_init() and after the preceding audit_match_record() call.  Allocation
+ * records are emitted synchronously during landlock_log_denial() in the current
+ * test's syscall context, so only those are counted in records->domain.
  */
 static int audit_count_records(int audit_fd, struct audit_records *records)
 {
+	static const char dealloc_pattern[] = REGEX_LANDLOCK_PREFIX
+		" status=deallocated ";
 	struct audit_message msg;
-	int err;
+	regex_t dealloc_re;
+	int ret, err = 0;
+
+	ret = regcomp(&dealloc_re, dealloc_pattern, 0);
+	if (ret)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	records->access = 0;
 	records->domain = 0;
@@ -402,9 +408,8 @@ static int audit_count_records(int audit_fd, struct audit_records *records)
 		err = audit_recv(audit_fd, &msg);
 		if (err) {
 			if (err == -EAGAIN)
-				return 0;
-			else
-				return err;
+				err = 0;
+			break;
 		}
 
 		switch (msg.header.nlmsg_type) {
@@ -412,12 +417,20 @@ static int audit_count_records(int audit_fd, struct audit_records *records)
 			records->access++;
 			break;
 		case AUDIT_LANDLOCK_DOMAIN:
-			records->domain++;
+			ret = regexec(&dealloc_re, msg.data, 0, NULL, 0);
+			if (ret == REG_NOMATCH) {
+				records->domain++;
+			} else if (ret != 0) {
+				err = -EIO;
+				goto out;
+			}
 			break;
 		}
 	} while (true);
 
-	return 0;
+out:
+	regfree(&dealloc_re);
+	return err;
 }
 
 static int audit_init(void)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c
index 93ae5bd0dcce..758cf2368281 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ TEST_F(audit_flags, signal)
 		} else {
 			EXPECT_EQ(1, records.access);
 		}
+		EXPECT_EQ(0, records.domain);
 
 		/* Updates filter rules to match the drop record. */
 		set_cap(_metadata, CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL);
@@ -917,6 +918,7 @@ TEST_F(audit_exec, signal_and_open)
 	/* Tests that there was no denial until now. */
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, audit_count_records(self->audit_fd, &records));
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.access);
+	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.domain);
 
 	/*
 	 * Wait for the child to do a first denied action by layer1 and
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c
index 1b6c8b53bf33..4f64c90583cd 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ TEST_F(audit, trace)
 	/* Makes sure there is no superfluous logged records. */
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, audit_count_records(self->audit_fd, &records));
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.access);
+	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.domain);
 
 	yama_ptrace_scope = get_yama_ptrace_scope();
 	ASSERT_LE(0, yama_ptrace_scope);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c
index c47491d2d1c1..72f97648d4a7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ TEST_F(scoped_audit, connect_to_child)
 	/* Makes sure there is no superfluous logged records. */
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, audit_count_records(self->audit_fd, &records));
 	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.access);
+	EXPECT_EQ(0, records.domain);
 
 	ASSERT_EQ(0, pipe2(pipe_child, O_CLOEXEC));
 	ASSERT_EQ(0, pipe2(pipe_parent, O_CLOEXEC));
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-13 10:51 Mickaël Salaün [this message]
2026-05-13 10:51 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] selftests/landlock: Increase default audit socket timeout Mickaël Salaün

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