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test: sync with the fake binary before killing it
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On faster machines we might be too fast and kill the fake binary during
fork() which then makes kernel report a "wrong" binary in the coredump,
e.g.:

[   31.408078] testsuite-74.sh[548]: + /tmp/make-dump /tmp/test-dump SIGTRAP
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + bin=/tmp/test-dump
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + sig=SIGTRAP
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + ulimit -c unlimited
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + pid=561
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + sleep 1
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + kill -s SIGTRAP 561
[   31.409720] testsuite-74.sh[560]: + wait 561
[   31.491757] systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice.
[   31.524488] systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump@0-563-0.service.
[   31.616372] systemd-coredump[564]: [🡕] Process 561 (make-dump) of user 0 dumped core.

                                      Stack trace of thread 561:
                                      #0  0x00007ff86bb49af7 _Fork (libc.so.6 + 0xd4af7)
                                      #1  0x00007ff86bb4965f __libc_fork (libc.so.6 + 0xd465f)
                                      #2  0x000055e88011b0ad make_child (bash + 0x550ad)
                                      #3  0x000055e8800fd05f n/a (bash + 0x3705f)
                                      #4  0x000055e880100116 execute_command_internal (bash + 0x3a116)
                                      #5  0x000055e8801011f2 execute_command_internal (bash + 0x3b1f2)
                                      #6  0x000055e8801025b6 execute_command (bash + 0x3c5b6)
                                      #7  0x000055e8800f134b reader_loop (bash + 0x2b34b)
                                      #8  0x000055e8800e757d main (bash + 0x2157d)
                                      #9  0x00007ff86ba98850 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x23850)
                                      #10 0x00007ff86ba9890a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2390a)
                                      #11 0x000055e8800e83b5 _start (bash + 0x223b5)
                                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
[   31.666617] testsuite-74.sh[560]: /tmp/make-dump: line 12:   561 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) "$bin" infinity
...
$ coredumpctl list --file system.journal
TIME                         PID UID GID SIG     COREFILE EXE            SIZE
Fri 2023-06-02 10:42:10 CEST 561   0   0 SIGTRAP journal  /usr/bin/bash     -
Fri 2023-06-02 10:42:11 CEST 570   0   0 SIGABRT journal  /tmp/test-dump    -
Fri 2023-06-02 10:42:12 CEST 582   0   0 SIGTRAP missing  /tmp/test-dump    -
Fri 2023-06-02 10:42:13 CEST 593   0   0 SIGABRT missing  /tmp/test-dump    -
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mrc0mmand committed Jun 2, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,17 @@ sig="${2:?}"
ulimit -c unlimited
"$bin" infinity &
pid=$!
sleep 1
# Sync with the "fake" binary, so we kill it once it's fully forked off,
# otherwise we might kill it during fork and kernel would then report
# "wrong" binary name (i.e. $MAKE_DUMP_SCRIPT instead of $CORE_TEST_BIN).
# In this case, wait until the "fake" binary (sleep in this case) enters
# the "interruptible sleep" state, at which point it should be ready
# to be sacrificed.
for _ in {0..9}; do
read -ra self_stat <"/proc/$pid/stat"
[[ "${self_stat[2]}" == S ]] && break
sleep .5
done
kill -s "$sig" "$pid"
# This should always fail
! wait "$pid"
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