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[v3,2/2] tests: add pidfd poll tests

Message ID 20190726162226.252750-2-surenb@google.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [v3,1/2] tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h | expand

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Suren Baghdasaryan July 26, 2019, 4:22 p.m. UTC
This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
iterations to run.
Specifically, it tests for:
- pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
- pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
- polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
- returned event is POLLIN
- event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed

10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
than 2000 iterations.
Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore      |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile        |   2 +-
 .../testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c

Comments

Joel Fernandes July 26, 2019, 5:07 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:22:26AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> iterations to run.
> Specifically, it tests for:
> - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> - returned event is POLLIN
> - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> 
> 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> than 2000 iterations.
> Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> ---

> +		close(pidfd);
> +		// Wait for child to prevent zombies

Comment style should be /* */, but I think Christian would be kind enough to
fix that when he applies the patch so shouldn't need a resend.

Thanks Suren and Christian!

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suren Baghdasaryan July 26, 2019, 5:24 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:07 AM Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:22:26AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> > 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> > It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> > iterations to run.
> > Specifically, it tests for:
> > - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> > - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> > - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> > - returned event is POLLIN
> > - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> >
> > 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> > which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> > than 2000 iterations.
> > Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> > ---
>
> > +             close(pidfd);
> > +             // Wait for child to prevent zombies
>
> Comment style should be /* */, but I think Christian would be kind enough to
> fix that when he applies the patch so shouldn't need a resend.

Agrh! That's what I get for constantly switching between kernel and
userspace development :\
Christian please let me know if I should respin this or you can fix it
when taking this patch.
Thanks!

>
> Thanks Suren and Christian!
>
> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
>
Christian Brauner July 27, 2019, 8:41 a.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 01:07:28PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:22:26AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> > 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> > It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> > iterations to run.
> > Specifically, it tests for:
> > - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> > - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> > - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> > - returned event is POLLIN
> > - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> > 
> > 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> > which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> > than 2000 iterations.
> > Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> > ---
> 
> > +		close(pidfd);
> > +		// Wait for child to prevent zombies
> 
> Comment style should be /* */, but I think Christian would be kind enough to
> fix that when he applies the patch so shouldn't need a resend.

No, I will force you to resend this whole thing. :)
Jk, I'll replace the // when I apply it to my tree; no problem. :)

> 
> Thanks Suren and Christian!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
>
Yann Droneaud July 27, 2019, 6:24 p.m. UTC | #4
Hi,

Le vendredi 26 juillet 2019 à 09:22 -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan a écrit :
> This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> iterations to run.
> Specifically, it tests for:
> - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> - returned event is POLLIN
> - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> 
> 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> than 2000 iterations.
> Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore      |   1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile        |   2 +-
>  .../testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> index 16d84d117bc0..a67896347d34 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
>  pidfd_open_test
> +pidfd_poll_test
>  pidfd_test
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> index 720b2d884b3c..ed58b7108d18 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>  CFLAGS += -g -I../../../../usr/include/ -lpthread
>  
> -TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test
> +TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test pidfd_poll_test
>  
>  include ../lib.mk
>  
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f1b62b91e53e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +#define _GNU_SOURCE
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/wait.h>
> +#include <poll.h>
> +#include <signal.h>
> +#include <stdbool.h>
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +#include <syscall.h>
> +#include <sys/wait.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +
> +#include "pidfd.h"
> +#include "../kselftest.h"
> +
> +static bool timeout;
> +
> +static void handle_alarm(int sig)
> +{
> +	timeout = true;
> +}

Not needed if poll() timeout is used instead.

> +
> +int main(int argc, char **argv)
> +{
> +	struct pollfd fds;
> +	int iter, nevents;
> +	int nr_iterations = 10000;
> +
> +	fds.events = POLLIN;
> +
> +	if (argc > 2)
> +		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Unexpected command line argument\n");
> +
> +	if (argc == 2) {
> +		nr_iterations = atoi(argv[1]);
> +		if (nr_iterations <= 0)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("invalid input parameter %s\n",
> +					argv[1]);
> +	}
> +
> +	ksft_print_msg("running pidfd poll test for %d iterations\n",
> +		nr_iterations);
> +
> +	for (iter = 0; iter < nr_iterations; iter++) {
> +		int pidfd;
> +		int child_pid = fork();
> +
> +		if (child_pid < 0) {
> +			if (errno == EAGAIN) {
> +				iter--;
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> +				"%s - failed to fork a child process\n",
> +				strerror(errno));
> +		}
> +
> +		if (child_pid == 0) {
> +			/* Child process just sleeps for a min and exits */
> +			sleep(60);

Instead of relying on a timer for no reason, I would use the following:

	while (1)
		pause();

> +			exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> +		}
> +
> +		/* Parent kills the child and waits for its death */
> +		pidfd = sys_pidfd_open(child_pid, 0);
> +		if (pidfd < 0)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_open failed\n",
> +					strerror(errno));
> +
> +		/* Setup 3 sec alarm - plenty of time */
> +		if (signal(SIGALRM, handle_alarm) == SIG_ERR)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - signal failed\n",
> +					strerror(errno));
> +		alarm(3);
> +

Would the poll() timeout be more simpler to use than relying on
SIGALRM: no need to setup signal, no need for handler, no need for
timeout variable.

> +		/* Send SIGKILL to the child */
> +		if (sys_pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGKILL, NULL, 0))
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_send_signal failed\n",
> +					strerror(errno));
> +
> +		/* Wait for the death notification */
> +		fds.fd = pidfd;
> +		nevents = poll(&fds, 1, -1);
> +

With

        nevents = poll(&fds, 1, 3000);

> +		/* Check for error conditions */
> +		if (nevents < 0)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - poll failed\n",
> +					strerror(errno));
> +

And
	if (nevents == 0)
		ksft_exit_fail_msg(
			"death notification wait timeout\n");
 
> +		if (nevents != 1)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("unexpected poll result: %d\n",
> +					nevents);
> +
> +		if (!(fds.revents & POLLIN))
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> +				"unexpected event type received: 0x%x\n",
> +				fds.revents);
> +
> +		if (timeout)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> +				"death notification wait timeout\n");
> +
> +		close(pidfd);
> +		// Wait for child to prevent zombies
> +		if (waitpid(child_pid, NULL, 0) < 0)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - waitpid failed\n",
> +					strerror(errno));

I feel safer now you defeated the zombies army :) Thanks.

> +
> +	}
> +
> +	ksft_test_result_pass("pidfd poll test: pass\n");
> +	return ksft_exit_pass();
> +}

Regards
Christian Brauner Aug. 6, 2019, 5:51 p.m. UTC | #5
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:22:26AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> iterations to run.
> Specifically, it tests for:
> - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> - returned event is POLLIN
> - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> 
> 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> than 2000 iterations.
> Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

Applied-to:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/log/?h=pidfd

Tracked-in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux.git/log/?h=for-next
Suren Baghdasaryan Aug. 6, 2019, 6:03 p.m. UTC | #6
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:24 AM Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,

Hi Yann,
 So sorry I missed your email. My email filters were messed up and I
fixed them now but missed a bunch of emails :(

>
> Le vendredi 26 juillet 2019 à 09:22 -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan a écrit :
> > This adds testing for polling on pidfd of a process being killed. Test runs
> > 10000 iterations by default to stress test pidfd polling functionality.
> > It accepts an optional command-line parameter to override the number or
> > iterations to run.
> > Specifically, it tests for:
> > - pidfd_open on a child process succeeds
> > - pidfd_send_signal on a child process succeeds
> > - polling on pidfd succeeds and returns exactly one event
> > - returned event is POLLIN
> > - event is received within 3 secs of the process being killed
> >
> > 10000 iterations was chosen because of the race condition being tested
> > which is not consistently reproducible but usually is revealed after less
> > than 2000 iterations.
> > Reveals race fixed by commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore      |   1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile        |   2 +-
> >  .../testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> > index 16d84d117bc0..a67896347d34 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
> > @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
> >  pidfd_open_test
> > +pidfd_poll_test
> >  pidfd_test
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> > index 720b2d884b3c..ed58b7108d18 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> >  CFLAGS += -g -I../../../../usr/include/ -lpthread
> >
> > -TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test
> > +TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test pidfd_poll_test
> >
> >  include ../lib.mk
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..f1b62b91e53e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +#define _GNU_SOURCE
> > +#include <errno.h>
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +#include <linux/wait.h>
> > +#include <poll.h>
> > +#include <signal.h>
> > +#include <stdbool.h>
> > +#include <stdio.h>
> > +#include <stdlib.h>
> > +#include <string.h>
> > +#include <syscall.h>
> > +#include <sys/wait.h>
> > +#include <unistd.h>
> > +
> > +#include "pidfd.h"
> > +#include "../kselftest.h"
> > +
> > +static bool timeout;
> > +
> > +static void handle_alarm(int sig)
> > +{
> > +     timeout = true;
> > +}
>
> Not needed if poll() timeout is used instead.
>
> > +
> > +int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > +{
> > +     struct pollfd fds;
> > +     int iter, nevents;
> > +     int nr_iterations = 10000;
> > +
> > +     fds.events = POLLIN;
> > +
> > +     if (argc > 2)
> > +             ksft_exit_fail_msg("Unexpected command line argument\n");
> > +
> > +     if (argc == 2) {
> > +             nr_iterations = atoi(argv[1]);
> > +             if (nr_iterations <= 0)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("invalid input parameter %s\n",
> > +                                     argv[1]);
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     ksft_print_msg("running pidfd poll test for %d iterations\n",
> > +             nr_iterations);
> > +
> > +     for (iter = 0; iter < nr_iterations; iter++) {
> > +             int pidfd;
> > +             int child_pid = fork();
> > +
> > +             if (child_pid < 0) {
> > +                     if (errno == EAGAIN) {
> > +                             iter--;
> > +                             continue;
> > +                     }
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> > +                             "%s - failed to fork a child process\n",
> > +                             strerror(errno));
> > +             }
> > +
> > +             if (child_pid == 0) {
> > +                     /* Child process just sleeps for a min and exits */
> > +                     sleep(60);
>
> Instead of relying on a timer for no reason, I would use the following:
>
>         while (1)
>                 pause();
>

Yeah, not much difference I think. If you don't strongly object I'll
keep it this way.

> > +                     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> > +             }
> > +
> > +             /* Parent kills the child and waits for its death */
> > +             pidfd = sys_pidfd_open(child_pid, 0);
> > +             if (pidfd < 0)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_open failed\n",
> > +                                     strerror(errno));
> > +
> > +             /* Setup 3 sec alarm - plenty of time */
> > +             if (signal(SIGALRM, handle_alarm) == SIG_ERR)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - signal failed\n",
> > +                                     strerror(errno));
> > +             alarm(3);
> > +
>
> Would the poll() timeout be more simpler to use than relying on
> SIGALRM: no need to setup signal, no need for handler, no need for
> timeout variable.

Unfortunately that would not work because after timeout is passed
poll() checks for the condition one last time, it sees that the
process is dead (the condition is satisfied) and it returns nevents==1
(event did happen) instead of nevents==0 (poll timed out). I did
implement it this way originally and was surprised that it never timed
out even when I saw a 3 sec delay but then figured it out after going
through the kernel code.

> > +             /* Send SIGKILL to the child */
> > +             if (sys_pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGKILL, NULL, 0))
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_send_signal failed\n",
> > +                                     strerror(errno));
> > +
> > +             /* Wait for the death notification */
> > +             fds.fd = pidfd;
> > +             nevents = poll(&fds, 1, -1);
> > +
>
> With
>
>         nevents = poll(&fds, 1, 3000);
>
> > +             /* Check for error conditions */
> > +             if (nevents < 0)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - poll failed\n",
> > +                                     strerror(errno));
> > +
>
> And
>         if (nevents == 0)
>                 ksft_exit_fail_msg(
>                         "death notification wait timeout\n");
>
> > +             if (nevents != 1)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("unexpected poll result: %d\n",
> > +                                     nevents);
> > +
> > +             if (!(fds.revents & POLLIN))
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> > +                             "unexpected event type received: 0x%x\n",
> > +                             fds.revents);
> > +
> > +             if (timeout)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg(
> > +                             "death notification wait timeout\n");
> > +
> > +             close(pidfd);
> > +             // Wait for child to prevent zombies
> > +             if (waitpid(child_pid, NULL, 0) < 0)
> > +                     ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - waitpid failed\n",
> > +                                     strerror(errno));
>
> I feel safer now you defeated the zombies army :) Thanks.

Thanks for pointing it out!

>
> > +
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     ksft_test_result_pass("pidfd poll test: pass\n");
> > +     return ksft_exit_pass();
> > +}
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Yann Droneaud
> OPTEYA
>

Thanks,
Suren.

>
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Patch

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
index 16d84d117bc0..a67896347d34 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ 
 pidfd_open_test
+pidfd_poll_test
 pidfd_test
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
index 720b2d884b3c..ed58b7108d18 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 CFLAGS += -g -I../../../../usr/include/ -lpthread
 
-TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test
+TEST_GEN_PROGS := pidfd_test pidfd_open_test pidfd_poll_test
 
 include ../lib.mk
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f1b62b91e53e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_poll_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ 
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <poll.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <syscall.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "pidfd.h"
+#include "../kselftest.h"
+
+static bool timeout;
+
+static void handle_alarm(int sig)
+{
+	timeout = true;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	struct pollfd fds;
+	int iter, nevents;
+	int nr_iterations = 10000;
+
+	fds.events = POLLIN;
+
+	if (argc > 2)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Unexpected command line argument\n");
+
+	if (argc == 2) {
+		nr_iterations = atoi(argv[1]);
+		if (nr_iterations <= 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("invalid input parameter %s\n",
+					argv[1]);
+	}
+
+	ksft_print_msg("running pidfd poll test for %d iterations\n",
+		nr_iterations);
+
+	for (iter = 0; iter < nr_iterations; iter++) {
+		int pidfd;
+		int child_pid = fork();
+
+		if (child_pid < 0) {
+			if (errno == EAGAIN) {
+				iter--;
+				continue;
+			}
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
+				"%s - failed to fork a child process\n",
+				strerror(errno));
+		}
+
+		if (child_pid == 0) {
+			/* Child process just sleeps for a min and exits */
+			sleep(60);
+			exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+		}
+
+		/* Parent kills the child and waits for its death */
+		pidfd = sys_pidfd_open(child_pid, 0);
+		if (pidfd < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_open failed\n",
+					strerror(errno));
+
+		/* Setup 3 sec alarm - plenty of time */
+		if (signal(SIGALRM, handle_alarm) == SIG_ERR)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - signal failed\n",
+					strerror(errno));
+		alarm(3);
+
+		/* Send SIGKILL to the child */
+		if (sys_pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGKILL, NULL, 0))
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - pidfd_send_signal failed\n",
+					strerror(errno));
+
+		/* Wait for the death notification */
+		fds.fd = pidfd;
+		nevents = poll(&fds, 1, -1);
+
+		/* Check for error conditions */
+		if (nevents < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - poll failed\n",
+					strerror(errno));
+
+		if (nevents != 1)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("unexpected poll result: %d\n",
+					nevents);
+
+		if (!(fds.revents & POLLIN))
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
+				"unexpected event type received: 0x%x\n",
+				fds.revents);
+
+		if (timeout)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg(
+				"death notification wait timeout\n");
+
+		close(pidfd);
+		// Wait for child to prevent zombies
+		if (waitpid(child_pid, NULL, 0) < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s - waitpid failed\n",
+					strerror(errno));
+
+	}
+
+	ksft_test_result_pass("pidfd poll test: pass\n");
+	return ksft_exit_pass();
+}