pkg/ipc: remove Config.Timeout

It's not used for anything useful and will conflict
with automatic timeout tuning.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/ipc/ipc.go b/pkg/ipc/ipc.go
index 06b39af9d..19bc89183 100644
--- a/pkg/ipc/ipc.go
+++ b/pkg/ipc/ipc.go
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	// Flags are configuation flags, defined above.
 	Flags EnvFlags
-
-	// Timeout is the execution timeout for a single program.
-	Timeout time.Duration
 }
 
 type CallFlags uint32
@@ -540,10 +537,19 @@ func makeCommand(pid int, bin []string, config *Config, inFile, outFile *os.File
 	}
 	dir = osutil.Abs(dir)
 
+	// Executor protects against most hangs, so we use quite large timeout here.
+	// Executor can be slow due to global locks in namespaces and other things,
+	// so let's better wait than report false misleading crashes.
+	timeout := time.Minute
+	if !config.UseForkServer {
+		// If there is no fork server, executor does not have internal timeout.
+		timeout = 5 * time.Second
+	}
+
 	c := &command{
 		pid:     pid,
 		config:  config,
-		timeout: sanitizeTimeout(config),
+		timeout: timeout,
 		dir:     dir,
 		outmem:  outmem,
 	}
@@ -809,27 +815,3 @@ func (c *command) exec(opts *ExecOpts, progData []byte) (output []byte, hanged b
 	}
 	return
 }
-
-func sanitizeTimeout(config *Config) time.Duration {
-	const (
-		executorTimeout = 5 * time.Second
-		minTimeout      = executorTimeout + 2*time.Second
-	)
-	timeout := config.Timeout
-	if timeout == 0 {
-		// Executor protects against most hangs, so we use quite large timeout here.
-		// Executor can be slow due to global locks in namespaces and other things,
-		// so let's better wait than report false misleading crashes.
-		timeout = time.Minute
-		if !config.UseForkServer {
-			// If there is no fork server, executor does not have internal timeout.
-			timeout = executorTimeout
-		}
-	}
-	// IPC timeout must be larger then executor timeout.
-	// Otherwise IPC will kill parent executor but leave child executor alive.
-	if config.UseForkServer && timeout < minTimeout {
-		timeout = minTimeout
-	}
-	return timeout
-}
diff --git a/pkg/ipc/ipc_test.go b/pkg/ipc/ipc_test.go
index e7c9aa0f8..b5c963392 100644
--- a/pkg/ipc/ipc_test.go
+++ b/pkg/ipc/ipc_test.go
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/syzkaller/sys/targets"
 )
 
-const timeout = 10 * time.Second
-
 func buildExecutor(t *testing.T, target *prog.Target) string {
 	src := filepath.FromSlash("../../executor/executor.cc")
 	bin, err := csource.BuildFile(target, src)
@@ -96,7 +94,6 @@ func TestExecute(t *testing.T) {
 			Executor:      bin,
 			UseShmem:      useShmem,
 			UseForkServer: useForkServer,
-			Timeout:       timeout,
 		}
 		env, err := MakeEnv(cfg, 0)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/ipc/ipcconfig/ipcconfig.go b/pkg/ipc/ipcconfig/ipcconfig.go
index 42b4d36d5..a99cbdadc 100644
--- a/pkg/ipc/ipcconfig/ipcconfig.go
+++ b/pkg/ipc/ipcconfig/ipcconfig.go
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@ var (
 	flagSignal   = flag.Bool("cover", false, "collect feedback signals (coverage)")
 	flagSandbox  = flag.String("sandbox", "none", "sandbox for fuzzing (none/setuid/namespace/android)")
 	flagDebug    = flag.Bool("debug", false, "debug output from executor")
-	flagTimeout  = flag.Duration("timeout", 0, "execution timeout")
 )
 
 func Default(target *prog.Target) (*ipc.Config, *ipc.ExecOpts, error) {
 	c := &ipc.Config{
 		Executor: *flagExecutor,
-		Timeout:  *flagTimeout,
 	}
 	if *flagSignal {
 		c.Flags |= ipc.FlagSignal