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@metan-ucw metan-ucw released this 22 May 12:22
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20180515
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Since the last release 297 patches by 38 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

  • New testcases:

    • two inotify regression tests for:
      764baba80168 ("ovl: hash non-dir by lower inode for fsnotify")
      31747eda41ef ("ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify")

    • sysclt01 a regression test for:
      5ccba44ba118 ("sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg")

    • CVE regression tests for:

      • CVE-2017-17053 - ccd5b3235180 ("x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct")
      • CVE-2017-16939 - 1137b5e2529a ("ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash")
      • CVE-2015-3290 - 9b6e6a8334d5 ("x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry")
      • CVE-2017-17052 - 2b7e8665b4ff ("fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing use-after-free")
      • CVE-2017-17807 - 4dca6ea1d943 ("KEYS: add missing permission check for request_key() destination")

    • read_all

      Test that aims to stress test /proc, /sys and safe subset of /dev
      filesystems by reading by reading each readable file using several
      threads.

    • The pwritev03 and preadv03 tests with O_DIRECT executed on all supported filesystems.
      (https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#2214-testing-with-a-block-device)

    • Pids controller tests fixed a race that made them fail sporadically and
      the the coverage was increased.

    • pwrite03, write02

      Write syscall tests for special case with NULL buffer and len 0 where
      the call is expected to return 0 i.e. success.

  • Removed outdated and broken tests

    • sssd daemon test
    • mail command test
    • ht_interrupt -- hyperthreading interrupt balancing test

  • 54 testcases were cleaned up and converted to the new test library

  • The syscalls testrun has been speeded up by about a minute which is 5% of the runtime.

  • Several Android fixes have been applied.

  • New macro for automatic retry with exponential backoff has been added to the
    test library, which should replace all the ad-hoc retry loops we do have all
    around the codebase.

  • IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) tests

    • Were rewritten to use new API, updated, and various bugs has been fixed.

    • The most important changes:

      • Avoid running on tmpfs ima_measurements.sh and ima_violations.sh
      • ima_measurements.sh: support new IMA measurement templates, support testing
        most of IMA supported hash algorithms, fix & update iversion check
      • tpm.sh: replace ima_measure with evmctl (external)
      • ima_policy.sh: improve check of policy writability
      • ima_boot_aggregate: fixing event size for modern BIOS

      Many thanks to Mimi Zohar for her review and testing of IMA test cases.

  • Plus the usual number of fixes and cleanups all over the place

NETWORK TESTS

Changelog for network tests brought to you by Peter Vorel.

  • New testcases:

    • for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT, DCCP and UDP ipsec and for UDPLITE protocol
    • regression test sctp_big_chunk aka CVE-2018-5803
    • netstress gained support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT, SO_ZEROCOPY flags
      and UDPLITE protocol
    • Use libtirpc for all RPC tests

  • Test cases rewritten into new shell API:

    • interface and multicast tests cases
    • in6_02

  • Removed tests cases

    • route{4,6}-ifdown

  • Various fixes and doc cleanups

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20180118..
76 Petr Vorel [email protected]
38 Cyril Hrubis [email protected]
37 Michael Moese [email protected]
30 Alexey Kodanev [email protected]
21 Xiao Yang [email protected]
12 yang xu [email protected]
9 Yixin Zhang [email protected]
7 Jinhui Huang [email protected]
7 Richard Palethorpe [email protected]
6 Jan Stancek [email protected]
6 Li Wang [email protected]
5 Amir Goldstein [email protected]
4 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [email protected]
4 Stanislav Kholmanskikh [email protected]
3 Petr Vorel [email protected]
3 Steve Muckle [email protected]
2 Anders Roxell [email protected]
2 Eric Biggers [email protected]
2 Khem Raj [email protected]
2 Sandeep Patil [email protected]
2 Sebastian Chlad [email protected]
2 xiao yang [email protected]
1 Christian Lanig [email protected]
1 Dmitry Safonov [email protected]
1 Erick Reyes [email protected]
1 Greg Hackmann [email protected]
1 Harish [email protected]
1 Hoang Van Tuyen [email protected]
1 Hridya Valsaraju [email protected]
1 Joe Konno [email protected]
1 Lars Persson [email protected]
1 Lianwen Sun [email protected]
1 Pavel Boldin [email protected]
1 Qiao Zhao [email protected]
1 Xiong Zhou [email protected]
1 Yang Pengfei [email protected]
1 akodanev [email protected]
1 xie hui [email protected]
1 yosun [email protected]

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20180118.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' |
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
34 Cyril Hrubis [email protected]
15 Petr Vorel [email protected]
15 Alexey Kodanev [email protected]
11 Jan Stancek [email protected]
7 Richard Palethorpe [email protected]
4 Li Wang [email protected]
3 Mimi Zohar [email protected]
2 Petr Vorel [email protected]
2 James Morris [email protected]
1 yang xu [email protected]
1 Xiao Yang [email protected]

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