23 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Oleg Nesterov 8d75c338f0 sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL
CONFIG_SYSCTL used to make sense as a separate hidden bool before commit
61a47c1ad3 ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"); it was selected
by both CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL and CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL.

Today CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is the only selector, so the two are always
equal. Kill the hidden bool, rename the PROC_SYSCTL prompt to SYSCTL,
and s/CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSCTL/ tree-wide.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
2026-08-05 15:28:23 +02:00
Joel Granados 23b8bacf15 sysctl: Close test ctl_headers with a for loop
As more tests are added, the exit function gets longer than it should
be. Condense the un-register calls into a for loop to make it easier to
add/remove tests.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
2025-04-14 14:13:41 +02:00
Joel Granados 2bac112eaa sysctl: call sysctl tests with a for loop
As we add more test functions in lib/tests_sysctl the main test function
(test_sysctl_init) grows. Condense the logic to make it easier to
add/remove tests.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
2025-04-14 14:13:41 +02:00
Joel Granados 138303ec6c sysctl: move u8 register test to lib/test_sysctl.c
If the test added in commit b5ffbd1396 ("sysctl: move the extra1/2
boundary check of u8 to sysctl_check_table_array") is run as a module, a
lingering reference to the module is left behind, and a 'sysctl -a'
leads to a panic.

To reproduce
    CONFIG_KUNIT=y
    CONFIG_SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST=m

Then run these commands:
    modprobe sysctl-test
    rmmod sysctl-test
    sysctl -a

The panic varies but generally looks something like this:

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa4571c0c7db4
    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100351067 PMD 114f5e067 PTE 0
    Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    ... ... ...
    RIP: 0010:proc_sys_readdir+0x166/0x2c0
    ... ... ...
    Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     iterate_dir+0x6e/0x140
     __se_sys_getdents+0x6e/0x100
     do_syscall_64+0x70/0x150
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Move the test to lib/test_sysctl.c where the registration reference is
handled on module exit

Fixes: b5ffbd1396 ("sysctl: move the extra1/2 boundary check of u8 to sysctl_check_table_array")

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
2025-04-14 14:13:41 +02:00
Joel Granados 1751f872cc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Jeff Johnson 3034749132 KUnit: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros for lib/test_*.ko
make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports for lib/test_*.ko:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_hexdump.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_dhry.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_firmware.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_sysctl.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_hash.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_ida.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_list_sort.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_min_heap.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_module.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_sort.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_static_keys.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_static_key_base.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_memcat_p.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_blackhole_dev.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_meminit.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_free_pages.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_kprobes.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_ref_tracker.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/test_bits.o

Add the missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
2024-06-24 22:25:11 -07:00
Joel Granados c8a65501d3 sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%[email protected]/)

Remove empty sentinel element from test_table and test_table_unregister.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
2023-12-28 04:57:57 -08:00
Joel Granados 777740779e sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
Basic test to ensure that empty directories can be registered and that
they in turn can serve as a base dir for other registrations.

Add one test to the sysctl selftest module. It first registers an empty
directory under "empty_add" and then uses that as a base to register
another empty dir.
The sysctl bash script then checks that "empty_add" is present and that
there an empty directory within it.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
2023-12-28 04:57:57 -08:00
Joel Granados f2e7a6265e test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point
Test that target gets created by register_sysctl_mount_point and that no
additional target can be created "on top" of a permanently empty sysctl
table.

Create a mount point target (mnt) in the sysctl test driver; try to
create another on top of that (mnt_error). Output an error if
"mnt_error" is present when we run the sysctl selftests.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
2023-06-18 02:32:54 -07:00
Joel Granados 3557643859 test_sysctl: Add an unregister sysctl test
Add a test that checks that the unregistered directory is removed from
/proc/sys/debug

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
2023-06-18 02:32:54 -07:00
Joel Granados e009bd5efe test_sysctl: Group node sysctl test under one func
Preparation commit to add a new type of test to test_sysctl.c. We
want to differentiate between node and (sub)directory tests.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
2023-06-18 02:32:53 -07:00
Luis Chamberlain 6cad1ecd4e testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag
Two selftests drivers exist under the copyleft-next license.
These drivers were added prior to SPDX practice taking full swing
in the kernel. Now that we have an SPDX tag for copyleft-next-0.3.1
documented, embrace it and remove the boiler plate.

Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]>
Cc: Kuno Woudt <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Fontana <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ciaran Farrell <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher De Nicolo <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tim Bird <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2022-11-08 15:44:02 +01:00
Tonghao Zhang 57b19468b3 selftests/sysctl: add sysctl macro test
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]>
Cc: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenz Bauer <[email protected]>
Cc: Akhmat Karakotov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
2022-05-03 10:15:07 +02:00
Luis Chamberlain 04bc883c98 test_sysctl: simplify subdirectory registration with register_sysctl()
There is no need to user boiler plate code to specify a set of base
directories we're going to stuff sysctls under.  Simplify this by using
register_sysctl() and specifying the directory path directly.

// pycocci sysctl-subdir-register-sysctl-simplify.cocci lib/test_sysctl.c

@c1@
expression E1;
identifier subdir, sysctls;
@@

static struct ctl_table subdir[] = {
	{
		.procname = E1,
		.maxlen = 0,
		.mode = 0555,
		.child = sysctls,
	},
	{ }
};

@c2@
identifier c1.subdir;

expression E2;
identifier base;
@@

static struct ctl_table base[] = {
	{
		.procname = E2,
		.maxlen = 0,
		.mode = 0555,
		.child = subdir,
	},
	{ }
};

@c3@
identifier c2.base;
identifier header;
@@

header = register_sysctl_table(base);

@r1 depends on c1 && c2 && c3@
expression c1.E1;
identifier c1.subdir, c1.sysctls;
@@

-static struct ctl_table subdir[] = {
-	{
-		.procname = E1,
-		.maxlen = 0,
-		.mode = 0555,
-		.child = sysctls,
-	},
-	{ }
-};

@r2 depends on c1 && c2 && c3@
identifier c1.subdir;

expression c2.E2;
identifier c2.base;
@@
-static struct ctl_table base[] = {
-	{
-		.procname = E2,
-		.maxlen = 0,
-		.mode = 0555,
-		.child = subdir,
-	},
-	{ }
-};

@initialize:python@
@@

def make_my_fresh_expression(s1, s2):
  return '"' + s1.strip('"') + "/" + s2.strip('"') + '"'

@r3 depends on c1 && c2 && c3@
expression c1.E1;
identifier c1.sysctls;
expression c2.E2;
identifier c2.base;
identifier c3.header;
fresh identifier E3 = script:python(E2, E1) { make_my_fresh_expression(E2, E1) };
@@

header =
-register_sysctl_table(base);
+register_sysctl(E3, sysctls);

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Phillip Potter <[email protected]>
Cc: Qing Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <[email protected]>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2022-01-22 08:33:35 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 2d0469814a lib: test_sysctl: delete duplicated words
Drop the repeated word "the".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2020-10-16 11:11:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fc2fb38c85 Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
 "This consists of:

   - Several fixes from Masami Hiramatsu to improve coverage for lib and
     sysctl tests.

   - Clean up to vdso test and a new test for getcpu() from Mark Brown.

   - Add new gen_tar selftests Makefile target generate selftest package
     running "make gen_tar" in selftests directory from Veronika
     Kabatova.

   - Other miscellaneous fixes to timens, exec, tpm2 tests"

* tag 'linux-kselftest-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  selftests/sysctl: Make sysctl test driver as a module
  selftests/sysctl: Fix to load test_sysctl module
  lib: Make test_sysctl initialized as module
  lib: Make prime number generator independently selectable
  selftests/ftrace: Return unsupported if no error_log file
  selftests/ftrace: Use printf for backslash included command
  selftests/timens: handle a case when alarm clocks are not supported
  Kernel selftests: Add check if TPM devices are supported
  selftests: vdso: Add a selftest for vDSO getcpu()
  selftests: vdso: Use a header file to prototype parse_vdso API
  selftests: vdso: Rename vdso_test to vdso_test_gettimeofday
  selftests/exec: Verify execve of non-regular files fail
  selftests: introduce gen_tar Makefile target
2020-06-09 10:03:12 -07:00
Vlastimil Babka 4f2f682d89 lib/test_sysctl: support testing of sysctl. boot parameter
Testing is done by a new parameter debug.test_sysctl.boot_int which
defaults to 0 and it's expected that the tester passes a boot parameter
that sets it to 1.  The test checks if it's set to 1.

To distinguish true failure from parameter not being set, the test
checks /proc/cmdline for the expected parameter, and whether test_sysctl
is built-in and not a module.

[[email protected]: skip the new test if boot_int sysctl is not present]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu 2f56f84511 lib: Make test_sysctl initialized as module
test_sysctl.c is expected to be used as a module, but since
it does not use module_init(), it never be registered as
a module and not appeared under /sys/module/.
In the result, the selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh always fails
to find the test module and is skipped.

This makes test_sysctl.c initialized as a module by module_init()
and allow sysctl.sh to find the test module is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
2020-06-02 10:26:14 -06:00
Eric Sandeen 2ea622b887 tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh: add proc_do_large_bitmap() test case
The kernel has only two users of proc_do_large_bitmap(), the kernel CPU
watchdog, and the ip_local_reserved_ports.  Refer to watchdog_cpumask
and ip_local_reserved_ports in Documentation for further details on
these.  When you input a large buffer into these, when it is larger than
PAGE_SIZE- 1, the input data gets misparsed, and the user get
incorrectly informed that the desired input value was set.  This commit
implements a test which mimics and exploits that use case, it uses a
bitmap size, as in the watchdog case.  The bitmap is used to test the
bitmap proc handler, proc_do_large_bitmap().

The next commit fixes this issue.

[[email protected]: move proc_do_large_bitmap() export to EOF]
[[email protected]: use new target description for backward compatibility]
[[email protected]: augment test number to 50, ran into issues with bash string comparisons when testing up to 50 cases.]
[[email protected]: introduce and use verify_diff_proc_file() to use diff]
[[email protected]: use mktemp for tmp file]
[[email protected]: merge shell test and C code]
[[email protected]: commit log love]
[[email protected]: export proc_do_large_bitmap() to allow for the test
[[email protected]: check for the return value when writing to the proc file]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2019-05-14 19:52:51 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 7c43a657a4 test_sysctl: test against int proc_dointvec() array support
Add a few initial respective tests for an array:

  o Echoing values separated by spaces works
  o Echoing only first elements will set first elements
  o Confirm PAGE_SIZE limit still applies even if an array is used

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 2920fad3a5 test_sysctl: add simple proc_douintvec() case
Test against a simple proc_douintvec() case.  While at it, add a test
against UINT_MAX.  Make sure UINT_MAX works, and UINT_MAX+1 will fail
and that negative values are not accepted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez eb965eda1c test_sysctl: add simple proc_dointvec() case
Test against a simple proc_dointvec() case.  While at it, add a test
against INT_MAX.  Make sure INT_MAX works, and INT_MAX+1 will fail.
Also test negative values work.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 9308f2f9e7 test_sysctl: add dedicated proc sysctl test driver
The existing tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/ tests include two test
cases, but these use existing production kernel sysctl interfaces.  We
want to expand test coverage but we can't just be looking for random
safe production values to poke at, that's just insane!

Instead just dedicate a test driver for debugging purposes and port the
existing scripts to use it.  This will make it easier for further tests
to be added.

Subsequent patches will extend our test coverage for sysctl.

The stress test driver uses a new license (GPL on Linux, copyleft-next
outside of Linux).  Linus was fine with this [0] and later due to Ted's
and Alans's request ironed out an "or" language clause to use [1] which
is already present upstream.

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFyhxcvD+q7tp+-yrSFDKfR0mOHgyEAe=f_94aKLsOu0Og@mail.gmail.com
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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