Cws Iouring Coverage

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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.)

• 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.