[PATCH v18 10/24] selftests/vm/pkeys: Fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really random

Sandipan Das sandipan at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jan 30 17:36:52 AEDT 2020


From: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>

alloc_random_pkey() was allocating the same pkey every
time. Not all pkeys were geting tested. This fixes it.

cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan at linux.ibm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index 7fd52d5c4bfd..9cc82b65f828 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <linux/futex.h>
+#include <time.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -546,10 +547,10 @@ int alloc_random_pkey(void)
 	int nr_alloced = 0;
 	int random_index;
 	memset(alloced_pkeys, 0, sizeof(alloced_pkeys));
+	srand((unsigned int)time(NULL));
 
 	/* allocate every possible key and make a note of which ones we got */
 	max_nr_pkey_allocs = NR_PKEYS;
-	max_nr_pkey_allocs = 1;
 	for (i = 0; i < max_nr_pkey_allocs; i++) {
 		int new_pkey = alloc_pkey();
 		if (new_pkey < 0)
-- 
2.17.1



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