When execute the following command to test clone3 under !CONFIG_TIME_NS: # make headers && cd tools/testing/selftests/clone3 && make && ./clone3 we can see the following error info: # [7538] Trying clone3() with flags 0x80 (size 0) # Invalid argument - Failed to create new process # [7538] clone3() with flags says: -22 expected 0 not ok 18 [7538] Result (-22) is different than expected (0) ... # Totals: pass:18 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 This is because if CONFIG_TIME_NS is not set, but the flag CLONE_NEWTIME (0x80) is used to clone a time namespace, it will return -EINVAL in copy_time_ns(). If kernel does not support CONFIG_TIME_NS, /proc/self/ns/time will be not exist, and then we should skip clone3() test with CLONE_NEWTIME. With this patch under !CONFIG_TIME_NS: # make headers && cd tools/testing/selftests/clone3 && make && ./clone3 ... # Time namespaces are not supported ok 18 # SKIP Skipping clone3() with CLONE_NEWTIME ... # Totals: pass:18 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0 Fixes: 515bddf0ec41 ("selftests/clone3: test clone3 with CLONE_NEWTIME") Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- v6: Rebase on 6.5-rc1 and update the commit message tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c index e60cf4d..1c61e3c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c @@ -196,7 +196,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST); /* Do a clone3() in a new time namespace */ - test_clone3(CLONE_NEWTIME, 0, 0, CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST); + if (access("/proc/self/ns/time", F_OK) == 0) { + test_clone3(CLONE_NEWTIME, 0, 0, CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST); + } else { + ksft_print_msg("Time namespaces are not supported\n"); + ksft_test_result_skip("Skipping clone3() with CLONE_NEWTIME\n"); + } /* Do a clone3() with exit signal (SIGCHLD) in flags */ test_clone3(SIGCHLD, 0, -EINVAL, CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST); -- 2.1.0