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@metan-ucw metan-ucw released this 30 Sep 12:27
· 4671 commits to master since this release

Since the last release 267 patches by 41 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

  • New tests

    • Basic eBPF map and program load tests
    • Netlink uevent socket tests
    • Basic ioprio() tests
    • Basic sendmmsg() test
    • mbind() tests
    • Memory protection (pkey) tests
    • prctl() with PR_CAP_AMBIENT
    • prctl() with PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS
    • prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_NAME
    • prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_SECCOMP
    • futext_cmp_requeue() tests
    • fanotify FAN_REPORT_FID tests
    • fanotify overlayfs tests
    • pidfd_send_signal() tests
    • IMA overlay tests
    • acct() tests
    • preadv2() RWF_NOWAIT tests
  • New tests variants for

    • clock_getres()
  • New regression tests

    • bpf_prog02: regression test for 3612af783cf52c (bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers)
    • timer_create() aka CVE-2017-18344
    • alsa timer race aka CVE-2017-1000380
    • accept02 aka CVE-2017-8890
    • setsockopt04 aka CVE-2016-9793
    • move_pages12: regression tests for:
      e66f17ff7177 (mm/hugetlb: take page table lock in follow_huge_pmd())
      c9d398fa2378 (mm, hugetlb: use pte_present() instead of pmd_present() in follow_huge_pmd())
      4643d67e8cb0 (hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS)
    • crypto_user02: regression test for 21d4120ec6f5 ("crypto: user - prevent operating on larval algorithms")
    • sysctl02: regression test for 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max")
  • Increased coverage

    • copy_file_range()
      • tests for cross device copy
      • tests for invalid files (swapfile, pipe, ...)
    • intel PT tests
    • sync_file_range()
      • added partial range sync
  • Added syscall tables for MIPS

  • Guarded buffers, which are pages followed by a PROT_NONE and preceeded by a
    canary were introduced and 8 tests were changed to make use of the new
    feature. Also newly implemented tests are using the same buffers as well.

  • Additional 36 tests were converted to the new test library

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

  • New net features:

    • introduce TST_GET_UNUSED_PORT() macro into C API
  • Rewritten to new API:

    • tst_get_unused_port
    • bind01
    • setdomainname
    • sethostname
  • The usuall amount of fixes and cleanups.

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20190517..

68  Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
45  Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
27  Yang Xu <[email protected]>
19  Christian Amann <[email protected]>
17  Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
 9  Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
 8  Li Wang <[email protected]>
 7  Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
 6  Jinhui huang <[email protected]>
 5  Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
 5  Po-Hsu Lin <[email protected]>
 5  Sandeep Patil <[email protected]>
 5  Yixin Zhang <[email protected]>
 4  Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>
 4  Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
 3  He Zhe <[email protected]>
 3  Matthew Bobrowski <[email protected]>
 2  Caspar Zhang <[email protected]>
 2  Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
 2  Steve Muckle <[email protected]>
 1  Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
 1  Ammy Yi <[email protected]>
 1  Hongzhi.Song <[email protected]>
 1  Khem Raj <[email protected]>
 1  Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
 1  Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
 1  Mathias Fiedler <[email protected]>
 1  Michael Moese <[email protected]>
 1  Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
 1  Petr Cervinka <[email protected]>
 1  Ping Fang <[email protected]>
 1  Piotr Gawel <[email protected]>
 1  Steven Price <[email protected]>
 1  Sultan Alsawaf <[email protected]>
 1  Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
 1  Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
 1  Tobias Jordan <[email protected]>
 1  Wu,Haiqiang <[email protected]>
 1  Yann Sionneau <[email protected]>
 1  Yi Zhao <[email protected]>
 1  Yu,Siliang <[email protected]>

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20190517.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

 94 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
 42 Li Wang <[email protected]>
 16 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
 13 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
 11 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
  7 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
  6 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
  6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad <[email protected]>
  5 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
  4 Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
  4 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
  3 Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
  2 Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
  2 Ignaz Forster <[email protected]>
  1 Sandeep Patil <[email protected]>
  1 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
  1 Enji Cooper <[email protected]>
  1 Christian Amann <[email protected]>