@@ -76,10 +76,14 @@ fi
# Save existing dmesg so we can detect new content below
dmesg > "$DMESG"
-# Most shells yell about signals and we're expecting the "cat" process
-# to usually be killed by the kernel. So we have to run it in a sub-shell
-# and silence errors.
-($SHELL -c 'cat <(echo '"$test"') >'"$TRIGGER" 2>/dev/null) || true
+# Since the kernel is likely killing the process writing to the trigger
+# file, it must not be the script's shell itself. i.e. we cannot do:
+# echo "$test" >"$TRIGGER"
+# Instead, use "cat" to take the signal. Since the shell will yell about
+# the signal that killed the subprocess, we must ignore the failure and
+# continue. However we don't silence stderr since there might be other
+# useful details reported there in the case of other unexpected conditions.
+echo "$test" | cat >"$TRIGGER" || true
# Record and dump the results
dmesg | comm --nocheck-order -13 "$DMESG" - > "$LOG" || true
Some environments do not set $SHELL when running tests. There's no need to use $SHELL here anyway, since "cat" can be used to receive any delivered signals from the kernel. Additionally avoid using bash-isms in the command, and record stderr for posterity. Suggested-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@collabora.com> Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Fixes: 46d1a0f03d66 ("selftests/lkdtm: Add tests for LKDTM targets") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> --- tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)