LTP 20210121
Since the last release 303 patches by 35 authors were merged.
NOTABLE CHANGES
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New tests
- finit_module()
- init_module()
- delete_module()
- semctl09 for SEM_STAT_ANY flag
- msgctl06 for MSG_STAT_ANY flag
- shmctl04 for SHM_STAT_ANY flag
- sendmmsg() failure tests
- recvmmsg() failure tests
- open_by_handle_at()
- name_to_handle_at()
- ptrace11 to check if we can trace PID 1
- select04 failure tests
- select04 to check if rfds/wfds flags are clered on empty/full fd
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New regression tests
- inotify10 added test for fecc4559780d (fsnotify: fix events reported to watching parent and child)
- fanotify09 for 7372e79c9eb9 (fanotify: fix logic of reporting name info with watched parent)
- ptrace10 bd14406b78e6 (perf/hw_breakpoint: Modify breakpoint even if the new attr has disabled set)
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Increased coverage
- fanotify09 added case with FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE on a sibling non-dir child
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Removed tests
- sync01, sync02 these tests were useless so there was no point in keeping them
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The metadata extraction patchset was merged. LTP now produces metadata.json
with a metadata for new library testcases and also html test catalogue build
from the extracted metadata.https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/docparse/README.md
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Kernel .config parser was rewritten to support proper boolean expressions
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LTP now requires pkg-config > 0.23 (working version 0.24 was released in 2010)
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Error handling in test library (mostly SAFE_MACROS()) was unified
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High level test library overview was written:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/lib/README.md -
IMA/EVM
- fixed ima_tpm.sh for TPM 2.0 and for TPM 1.2 on kernel >= v5.8 (commit 6f1a1d103b48)
- rewrote ima_boot_aggregate.c to new API
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16 testcases were converted to the new test library
- The usual amount of fixes and cleanups.
NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS
brought to you by Petr Vorel
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New tests
- wireguard tests
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Fixes
- fix various false-positive failures in tests using tst_netload
(tests in net.features and net_stress.ipsec_* runtest files) - if-mtu-change.sh on s390x: fix max packet size for IPv4
- fix various false-positive failures in tests using tst_netload
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Compatibility fixes:
- ping and traceroute from BusyBox
- MUSL (netstress)
- traceroute6 from iputils
- various other fixes and cleanup
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Rewrite into new API
- host01
- netstat01.sh
CREDITS
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -e -n 20200930..
88 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
52 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
25 Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
19 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
18 Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
10 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
8 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
8 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
8 Feiyu Zhu <[email protected]>
8 Kory Maincent <[email protected]>
7 Radoslav Kolev <[email protected]>
5 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
4 Cixi Geng <[email protected]>
4 Krzysztof Dynowski <[email protected]>
4 Li Wang <[email protected]>
4 Po-Hsu Lin <[email protected]>
4 Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>
3 Alexander Egorenkov <[email protected]>
2 Khem Raj <[email protected]>
2 Li Zhijian <[email protected]>
2 Pengfei Xu <[email protected]>
2 Tree Davies <[email protected]>
2 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
2 Bogdan Lezhepekov <[email protected]>
2 Johannes Nixdorf <[email protected]>
1 Alexander Egorenkov <[email protected]>
1 Deepak Rawat <[email protected]>
1 Filip Bozuta <[email protected]>
1 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
1 Peter Bee <[email protected]>
1 Petr Cervinka via ltp <[email protected]>
1 Punit Agrawal <[email protected]>
1 Radoslav Kolev via ltp <[email protected]>
1 Xinpeng Liu <[email protected]>
1 bhargavdas <[email protected]>
And also thanks to patch reviewers:
git log 20200930.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
114 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
58 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
51 Li Wang <[email protected]>
13 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
11 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
10 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
9 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
5 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
5 Jan Kara <[email protected]>
3 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
5 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
3 Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
2 Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
1 Kory Maincent <[email protected]>
1 Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>