Use a filter function to skip the time namespace test on systems with !CONFIG_TIME_NS. This reworks a fix originally done by Tiezhu Yang prior to the refactoring in 34dce23f7e40 ("selftests/clone3: Report descriptive test names"). The changelog from their fix explains the issue very clearly: 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> Original-fix-from: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c index 9429d361059e..915846bc32cc 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/clone3/clone3.c @@ -138,6 +138,16 @@ static bool not_root(void) return false; } +static bool timens_unsupported(void) +{ + if (access("/proc/self/ns/time", F_OK) == 0) { + ksft_print_msg("Time namespaces are not supported\n"); + return true; + } + + return false; +} + static size_t page_size_plus_8(void) { return getpagesize() + 8; @@ -282,6 +292,7 @@ static const struct test tests[] = { .size = 0, .expected = 0, .test_mode = CLONE3_ARGS_NO_TEST, + .filter = timens_unsupported, }, { .name = "exit signal (SIGCHLD) in flags", --- base-commit: 8d4099dd0727acfc8b0f644eacaf852f9d5dc649 change-id: 20231019-kselftest-clone3-time-ns-730b6f4187c7 Best regards, -- Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>