This problem was reported earlier. Following is a brief history for this issue: The ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ioctl/ioctl02 testcase was failing on 2.6.27 on x86_64 kernel(s).
# ./ioctl02 -D
/dev/tty0
ioctl02 0 INFO : cflag has incorrect value. 4277
ioctl02 1 FAIL : TCGETA/TCSETA tests FAILED with 1 error
ioctl02 0 INFO : child: Got SIGTERM from parent.
The following mail archive tells that it can be a kernel driver problem: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=48F4CFF7.8070303%0terra.com.br. It seems there is some modification between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1 which raise this problem. Looking at the git log of file drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c there are few commits between these two releases (3 to be exactly, and one of them is a typo):
tty: expose new methods needed for drivers to get termios right:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f519d728169fa9975bcba001de425f11e18e8e3,
tty_ioctl: fix the baud_table check in encode_baud_rate:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=75e8b71d559632dd70c9799ea8b5c133a2ddcea9,
Somebody says:
The ltp-list thread referenced seems to imply that the new functionality is correct and that the relevant LTP test needs to change, whereas others disagreed: Afaics, the ltp-list thread didn't conclude if the testcase should be fixed or if there's a problem in the kernel tty modification. Beyond this, there is this comment from Alan Cox on commit 5f519d728169fa9975bcba001de425f11e18e8e3 (mainly the last 3 paragraphs), mentioning that he was expecting some "tweaking" until the drivers were fixed.
However, i tried to set only the HUPCL | CREAD | CLOCAL bits, still the tests failed for 2.6.27 kernels. So, i have prepared 2 patches:
1) PATCH 1: Patch to Find the core problem with ioctl02: (This is for demonstration and not to be applied)
This clearly demonstrates that something goes wrong when: ioctl(parentfd, TCGETA, &termio) gets called. It alters the value of c_cflag. However other flags´ values remain unchanged:
# ./ioctl02 -D /dev/tty0
ioctl02 0 INFO : Trying to the Set the value of c_cflag, present value of c_cflag=0
ioctl02 0 INFO : Trying to the Set the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag to be set to=5641
ioctl02 0 INFO : After Setting the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag=5641
ioctl02 0 INFO : Before Calling ioctl(parentfd, TCSETA, &termio), the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag=5641
ioctl02 0 INFO : After Calling ioctl(parentfd, TCSETA, &termio), the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag=5641
ioctl02 0 INFO : Before Calling ioctl(parentfd, TCGETA, &termio), the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag=5641
ioctl02 0 INFO : After Calling ioctl(parentfd, TCGETA, &termio), the value of c_cflag, value of c_cflag=4277
ioctl02 0 INFO : cflag has incorrect value. 4277
ioctl02 1 FAIL : TCGETA/TCSETA tests FAILED with 1 error
ioctl02 0 INFO : child: Got SIGTERM from parent.
2) PATCH 2: Patch to Remove Checking for "termio.c_cflag":
The only way Test can handle this to make it pass is to avoid checking for this flag which is causing the trouble, which this patch does:
# ./ioctl02 -D /dev/tty0
ioctl02 0 INFO : termio values are set as expected
ioctl02 1 PASS : TCGETA/TCSETA tests SUCCEEDED
ioctl02 0 INFO : child: Got SIGTERM from parent.
However, i still believe that there is something to be fixed from the kernel side, rather than from the test side, although this patch will make the test PASS for the time being. And i will not have any problem applying this patch. Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak<subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>.
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