Before this change, a test runner using this self test would see a return code of 0 when the tests using a child process (namely the MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC tests) failed, masking test failures. Fixes: 11f75a01448f ("selftests/memfd: add tests for MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL MFD_EXEC") Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c index d8342989c547..8b7390ad81d1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c @@ -1219,7 +1219,24 @@ static pid_t spawn_newpid_thread(unsigned int flags, int (*fn)(void *)) static void join_newpid_thread(pid_t pid) { - waitpid(pid, NULL, 0); + int wstatus; + + if (waitpid(pid, &wstatus, 0) < 0) { + printf("newpid thread: waitpid() failed: %m\n"); + abort(); + } + + if (WIFEXITED(wstatus) && WEXITSTATUS(wstatus) != 0) { + printf("newpid thread: exited with non-zero error code %d\n", + WEXITSTATUS(wstatus)); + abort(); + } + + if (WIFSIGNALED(wstatus)) { + printf("newpid thread: killed by signal %d\n", + WTERMSIG(wstatus)); + abort(); + } } /* -- 2.41.0