This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:03:10 -0700 Subject: selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail
From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org
commit 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b upstream.
Fix a logic error that caused the test to exit with 0 even if test cases failed.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Stas Sergeev stsp@list.ru Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: bartoldeman@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1cc37144038958a469c8f70a5f47a6a5638636a.1521003603... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int main(void) clearhandler(SIGSEGV);
/* Make sure nothing explodes if we fork. */ - if (fork() > 0) + if (fork() == 0) return 0;
return (nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are
queue-4.4/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-the-str-and-sldt-instructions.patch queue-4.4/x86-vm86-32-fix-popf-emulation.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-user-mode-instruction-prevention.patch queue-4.4/perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-use-pxd_large.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-add-test-cases-for-popf.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.patch