0Day/LKP observed that the kselftest blocks forever since one of the pidfd_wait doesn't terminate in 1 of 30 runs. After digging into the source, we found that it blocks at: ASSERT_EQ(sys_waitid(P_PIDFD, pidfd, &info, WCONTINUED, NULL), 0); wait_states has below testing flow: CHILD PARENT ---------------+-------------- 1 STOP itself 2 WAIT for CHILD STOPPED 3 SIGNAL CHILD to CONT 4 CONT 5 STOP itself 5' WAIT for CHILD CONT 6 WAIT for CHILD STOPPED The problem is that the kernel cannot ensure the order of 5 and 5', once 5 goes first, the test will fail. we can reproduce it by: $ while true; do make run_tests -C pidfd; done Introduce a blocking read in child process to make sure the parent can check its WCONTINUED. CC: Philip Li <philip.li@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I have almost forgotten this patch since the former version post over 6 months ago. This time I just do a rebase and update the comments. V3: fixes description and add review tag V2: rewrite with pipe to avoid usleep --- tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_wait.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_wait.c b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_wait.c index 070c1c876df1..c3e2a3041f55 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_wait.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_wait.c @@ -95,20 +95,28 @@ static int sys_waitid(int which, pid_t pid, siginfo_t *info, int options, .flags = CLONE_PIDFD | CLONE_PARENT_SETTID, .exit_signal = SIGCHLD, }; + int pfd[2]; pid_t pid; siginfo_t info = { .si_signo = 0, }; + ASSERT_EQ(pipe(pfd), 0); pid = sys_clone3(&args); ASSERT_GE(pid, 0); if (pid == 0) { + char buf[2]; + + close(pfd[1]); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); + ASSERT_EQ(read(pfd[0], buf, 1), 1); + close(pfd[0]); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } + close(pfd[0]); ASSERT_EQ(sys_waitid(P_PIDFD, pidfd, &info, WSTOPPED, NULL), 0); ASSERT_EQ(info.si_signo, SIGCHLD); ASSERT_EQ(info.si_code, CLD_STOPPED); @@ -117,6 +125,8 @@ static int sys_waitid(int which, pid_t pid, siginfo_t *info, int options, ASSERT_EQ(sys_pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGCONT, NULL, 0), 0); ASSERT_EQ(sys_waitid(P_PIDFD, pidfd, &info, WCONTINUED, NULL), 0); + ASSERT_EQ(write(pfd[1], "C", 1), 1); + close(pfd[1]); ASSERT_EQ(info.si_signo, SIGCHLD); ASSERT_EQ(info.si_code, CLD_CONTINUED); ASSERT_EQ(info.si_pid, parent_tid); -- 1.8.3.1