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tools/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for test_dev_cgroup

PATCH Applied Yonghong Song 2 participants 2 messages Dec 20, 2017 – Dec 21, 2017

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PATCH 1/1 tools/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for test_dev_cgroup

The default rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is 64KB. In certain cases, e.g. in a test machine mimicking our production system, this test may fail due to unable to charge the required memory for prog load:

  $ ./test_dev_cgroup
  libbpf: load bpf program failed: Operation not permitted
  libbpf: failed to load program 'cgroup/dev'
  libbpf: failed to load object './dev_cgroup.o'
  Failed to load DEV_CGROUP program
  ...

Changing the default rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to unlimited makes the test pass.

This patch also fixed a problem where when bpf_prog_load fails, cleanup_cgroup_environment() should not be called since setup_cgroup_environment() has not been invoked. Otherwise,
the following confusing message will appear:
...
(/home/yhs/local/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c:95:
errno: No such file or directory) Opening Cgroup Procs: /mnt/cgroup.procs
...

---
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_dev_cgroup.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_dev_cgroup.c +8 -1
index 02c85d6..c1535b3 100644
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <assert.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 
 #include <linux/bpf.h>
 #include <bpf/bpf.h>
@@ -23,15 +25,19 @@
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+	struct rlimit limit  = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY };
 	struct bpf_object *obj;
 	int error = EXIT_FAILURE;
 	int prog_fd, cgroup_fd;
 	__u32 prog_cnt;
 
+	if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &limit) < 0)
+		perror("Unable to lift memlock rlimit");
+
 	if (bpf_prog_load(DEV_CGROUP_PROG, BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_DEVICE,
 			  &obj, &prog_fd)) {
 		printf("Failed to load DEV_CGROUP program\n");
-		goto err;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (setup_cgroup_environment()) {
@@ -89,5 +95,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 err:
 	cleanup_cgroup_environment();
 
+out:
 	return error;
 }
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Quoted 23 lines · Yonghong Song

The default rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is 64KB. In certain cases, e.g. in a test machine mimicking our production system, this test may fail due to unable to charge the required memory for prog load:

  $ ./test_dev_cgroup
  libbpf: load bpf program failed: Operation not permitted
  libbpf: failed to load program 'cgroup/dev'
  libbpf: failed to load object './dev_cgroup.o'
  Failed to load DEV_CGROUP program
  ...

Changing the default rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to unlimited makes the test pass.

This patch also fixed a problem where when bpf_prog_load fails, cleanup_cgroup_environment() should not be called since setup_cgroup_environment() has not been invoked. Otherwise,
the following confusing message will appear:
...
(/home/yhs/local/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cgroup_helpers.c:95:
errno: No such file or directory) Opening Cgroup Procs: /mnt/cgroup.procs
...

Quoted 1 line

Applied, Thanks Yonghong.