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Audit CWS (runtime-security) io_uring functional-test coverage and add a functional test for any io_uring opcode whose operation CWS observes but that is not exercised through io_uring. Test-driven — coverage is judged by tests, never by reading eBPF/hook internals. Use when auditing io_uring test coverage or after new IORING_OP_ opcodes appear.

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CWS io_uring test coverage audit

For every io_uring operation CWS observes, there must be a functional test that issues the operation through io_uring and asserts the event fires. This skill finds the gaps and fills them.

Principle: tests are the only arbiter

Coverage is decided by tests, nothing else. Do not read eBPF programs or C hooks (anything under pkg/security/ebpf/) to judge coverage — implementation is out of scope and misleads. The only question is: does an io_uring test exist for this operation, and does it pass?

The one io_uring-specific fact (it's a test assertion, not implementation): io_uring completes asynchronously, so every io_uring test must assert event.async == true.

The audit: build three lists, then intersect

List A — io_uring opcodes. WebFetch https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/io_uring_enter.2.html and list every IORING_OP_* with the syscall it performs (e.g. IORING_OP_SOCKET → socket(2)). Offline fallback: the iouring-go fork is replaced in go.mod — import path stays github.com/iceber/iouring-go, but source on disk is under $(go env GOMODCACHE)/github.com/lebauce/iouring-go@*/syscall/types.go.

List B — tested syscalls. Read pkg/security/tests/. A syscall is tested when a test issues it as the triggering action (inside the func() error {…} passed to WaitSignal/runSyscallTester) and asserts an event — not when it only appears as setup. Build the list from test bodies, not event names: the asserted event may be named differently.

List C — tested io_uring opcodes. grep -rn 'iouring\.\|io_uring' pkg/security/tests/*.go. Mostly t.Run("io_uring", …) subtests plus a few standalone funcs.

Conclude, per opcode in A:

  • syscall ∉ B → out of scope (CWS doesn't observe it; no io_uring test expected).
  • syscall ∈ B → in scope; then opcode ∈ C → tested, else → gap.

Write a test for every gap.

Writing the io_uring test

Model on an existing subtest (open_test.go → t.Run("io_uring", …)). For each gap:

  1. Rule scope. The test process is testsuite. Many rules are scoped to process.file.name == "syscall_tester"; reuse the parent rule only if it already admits testsuite (e.g. in [ "syscall_tester", "testsuite" ]), otherwise add a new rule scoped to process.file.name == "testsuite". Check the parent's ruleDefs first.
  2. Submit. iour, err := iouring.New(1); submit the op; read the result; in the validation callback assert event type, key fields, and event.async == true.
  3. Kernel gate, not errno skip. Gate "kernel too old for this opcode" deterministically at the top of the subtest: checkKernelCompatibility(t, "io_uring <op> needs Linux X.Y", func(kv *kernel.Version) bool { return kv.Code < kernel.VersionCode(X, Y, 0) }). Don't skip on a negative errno — a malformed raw SQE returns one too, so skipping would hide the gap behind a green test. On a supported kernel, treat an unexpected negative result as a failure (return fmt.Errorf(...)). (A library prep helper can't be malformed, so an errno skip there is harmless.)
  4. ebpfless. Only matters if the parent test is in the available list (~-prefixed entries) in pkg/security/tests/main_linux.go — those prefix-match subtests and pull yours into the ebpfless run, where io_uring is unsupported. If so, add an exclude entry. The match is exact on the full t.Name(), so prefer a flat sibling name (TestOpen/io_uring_ftruncate, not a nested TestOpen/io_uring/ftruncate).

No prep helper in the fork? The fork wraps only a subset. For other opcodes build a raw SQE with a custom iouring.PrepRequest using the helpers in pkg/security/tests/iouring_test.go (extend them as needed). This is the one place you may touch an opcode's low-level shape.

Verify

  • gofmt -l <your files> (no output = OK).
  • Run the test via the harness: dda inv security-agent.functional-tests --skip-linters --testflags="-test.run <YourTest>". Green = covered, red = the gap is real.

Report

Report the per-opcode classification (out of scope / tested / gap) and the test files added or changed.