Add a new selftest for testing counter_atomic* Counters API. This test load test_counters test modules and unloads.
The test module runs tests and prints results in dmesg.
There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api is used strictly for counting and not for managing object lifetime. In some cases, atomic_t might not even be needed.
The purpose of these counters is to clearly differentiate atomic_t counters from atomic_t usages that guard object lifetimes, hence prone to overflow and underflow errors. It allows tools that scan for underflow and overflow on atomic_t usages to detect overflow and underflows to scan just the cases that are prone to errors.
Simple atomic counters api provides interfaces for simple atomic counters that just count, and don't guard resource lifetimes. The interfaces are built on top of atomic_t api, providing a smaller subset of atomic_t interfaces necessary to support simple counters.
Counter wraps around to INT_MIN when it overflows and should not be used to guard resource lifetimes, device usage and open counts that control state changes, and pm states. Overflowing to INT_MIN is consistent with the atomic_t api, which it is built on top of.
Using counter_atomic* to guard lifetimes could lead to use-after free when it overflows and undefined behavior when used to manage state changes and device usage/open states.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org --- MAINTAINERS | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/lib/config | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh | 10 ++++++++++ 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4e82d0ffcab0..26719b8dd48e 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -15845,6 +15845,7 @@ L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: include/linux/counters.h F: lib/test_counters.c +F: tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh
SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI) S: Obsolete diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile index a105f094676e..e8960d7934e2 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/Makefile @@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ all:
TEST_PROGS := printf.sh bitmap.sh prime_numbers.sh strscpy.sh +TEST_PROGS += test_counters.sh
include ../lib.mk diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib/config b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/config index b80ee3f6e265..6ed25024d371 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib/config +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/config @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ CONFIG_TEST_BITMAP=m CONFIG_PRIME_NUMBERS=m CONFIG_TEST_STRSCPY=m CONFIG_TEST_BITOPS=m +CONFIG_TEST_COUNTERS=m diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000000..78726cad5c7a --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib/test_counters.sh @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# +# Copyright (c) 2020 Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org +# Copyright (c) 2020 The Linux Foundation +# +# Tests the Simple Atomic Counters interfaces using test_counters +# kernel module +# +$(dirname $0)/../kselftest/module.sh "test_counters" test_counters