root/tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-2-is-kthread.c
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2024 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
 *
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/* Test that kernel thread is reported as such. */
#undef NDEBUG
#include <assert.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
        /*
         * The following solutions don't really work:
         *
         * 1) jit kernel module which creates kernel thread:
         * test becomes arch-specific,
         * problems with mandatory module signing,
         * problems with lockdown mode,
         * doesn't work with CONFIG_MODULES=n at all,
         * kthread creation API is formally unstable internal kernel API,
         * need a mechanism to report test kernel thread's PID back,
         *
         * 2) ksoftirqd/0 and kswapd0 look like stable enough kernel threads,
         * but their PIDs are unstable.
         *
         * Check against kthreadd which always seem to exist under pid 2.
         */
        int fd = open("/proc/2/status", O_RDONLY);
        assert(fd >= 0);

        char buf[4096];
        ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
        assert(0 <= rv && rv < sizeof(buf));
        buf[rv] = '\0';

        assert(strstr(buf, "Kthread:\t1\n"));

        return 0;
}