On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 09:33:45PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> pipe named FIFO special file is being created in execveat.c to perform
> some tests. Makefile doesn't need to do anything with the pipe. When it
> isn't found, Makefile generates the following build error:
>
> make: *** No rule to make target '/linux_mainline/tools/testing/selftests/exec/pipe', needed by 'all'. Stop.
Ah, good catch. However, I think this should be moved to EXTRA_CLEAN instead of
only removed from TEST_GEN_FILES. (i.e. "pipe" is created by
tools/testing/selftests/exec/execveat.c and should be removed.
-Kees
>
> Fixes: 61016db15b8e ("selftests/exec: Verify execve of non-regular files fail")
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile
> index dd61118df66ed..12c5e27d32c16 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ CFLAGS += -D_GNU_SOURCE
>
> TEST_PROGS := binfmt_script non-regular
> TEST_GEN_PROGS := execveat load_address_4096 load_address_2097152 load_address_16777216
> -TEST_GEN_FILES := execveat.symlink execveat.denatured script subdir pipe
> +TEST_GEN_FILES := execveat.symlink execveat.denatured script subdir
> # Makefile is a run-time dependency, since it's accessed by the execveat test
> TEST_FILES := Makefile
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>
--
Kees Cook
