tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/cred_change_test.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/cred_change_test.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/cred_change_test.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 16953 bytes
- Lines
- 815
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Touches user memory; correctness depends on fault-safe copying and privilege boundary handling.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
errno.hfcntl.hlimits.hsched.hstdio.hstdlib.hstring.hsys/capability.hsys/ioctl.hsys/stat.hsys/syscall.hsys/types.hsys/wait.hunistd.hlinux/nsfs.h../kselftest_harness.h../filesystems/utils.hwrappers.h
Detected Declarations
function setuidfunction setgidfunction setresuid
Annotated Snippet
if (userns_fd < 0) {
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(1);
}
if (setns(userns_fd, CLONE_NEWUSER) < 0) {
close(userns_fd);
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(1);
}
close(userns_fd);
/* Get user namespace ID */
fd = open("/proc/self/ns/user", O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(1);
}
if (ioctl(fd, NS_GET_ID, &child_userns_id) < 0) {
close(fd);
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(1);
}
close(fd);
/* Send namespace ID to parent */
write(pipefd[1], &child_userns_id, sizeof(child_userns_id));
/*
* Perform multiple setuid() calls.
* Each setuid() triggers commit_creds() which should properly
* swap active references via switch_cred_namespaces().
*/
for (setuid_count = 0; setuid_count < 50; setuid_count++) {
uid_t target_uid = (setuid_count % 10);
if (setuid(target_uid) < 0) {
if (errno != EPERM) {
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(1);
}
}
}
close(pipefd[1]);
exit(0);
}
/* Parent process */
close(pipefd[1]);
if (read(pipefd[0], &userns_id, sizeof(userns_id)) != sizeof(userns_id)) {
close(pipefd[0]);
kill(pid, SIGKILL);
waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
SKIP(return, "Failed to get namespace ID from child");
}
close(pipefd[0]);
TH_LOG("Child user namespace ID: %llu", (unsigned long long)userns_id);
/* Verify namespace is active while child is running */
ret = sys_listns(&req, ns_ids, ARRAY_SIZE(ns_ids), 0);
if (ret < 0) {
kill(pid, SIGKILL);
waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
if (errno == ENOSYS)
SKIP(return, "listns() not supported");
ASSERT_GE(ret, 0);
}
for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
if (ns_ids[i] == userns_id) {
found = true;
break;
}
}
ASSERT_TRUE(found);
waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
ASSERT_TRUE(WIFEXITED(status));
ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(status), 0);
/* Verify namespace becomes inactive after child exits */
ret = sys_listns(&req, ns_ids, ARRAY_SIZE(ns_ids), 0);
ASSERT_GE(ret, 0);
found = false;
for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
if (ns_ids[i] == userns_id) {
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `errno.h`, `fcntl.h`, `limits.h`, `sched.h`, `stdio.h`, `stdlib.h`, `string.h`, `sys/capability.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function setuid`, `function setgid`, `function setresuid`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
- This snippet crosses the user/kernel memory boundary; validate fault handling and access checks before translating the pattern.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.