Good news everyone,
the Linux Test Project test suite stable release for *January 2018* has been
released.
Since the last release 278 patches by 35 authors were merged.
Notable changes for this release include:
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* New tests for:
- unshare(1) command
- ioctl07 test for RNDGETENTCNT ioctl()
- new network MACsec testcases
- new network IPsec SCTP and DCCP testcases
* New regression tests for:
- CVE-2017-5754 aka meltdown
- CVE-2017-12193 (test add_key04)
- CVE-2017-15299 and CVE-2017-15951 (test request_key03)
- CVE-2017-7308 (test setsockopt02)
- CVE-2016-9604 (test keyctl08)
- CVE-2017-15537 (test ptrace07)
- CVE-2017-12192 (test keyctl07)
- add_key03 regression test for kernel commit 237bbd29f7a0
- keyctl06 regression test for kernel commit e645016abc80
* Fixed tests:
- brk01 (test rewritten from scratch)
- sigwaitinfo01 (fixed and enabled)
- openposix aio testcases (uninitialized aiocb)
+ many smaller fixes
* Removed tests:
- invalid openposix pthread_barrier_wait_6-1 test
- tcp_cmds tests for rwho, echo, finger, and rdist.
* The test library gained support to run a particular test against
different filesystems including FUSE filesystems such as NTFS or exFAT. The
mkfs and kernel/FUSE support for a particular filesystem must be in-place
otherwise the tests will skip it automatically.
Some of the filesystem specific syscall tests such as fallocate() are
executed this way now. We also have a new test that fills up filesystem
using several threads and expects the syscalls to fail gracefully.
* The fuzzy synchronization library that is used to trigger races mostly in CVE
testcases was rewritten to use one thread instead of starting a thread on
each iteration, which is not only faster but also more stable since we
introduce less random jitter to the timing measurements this way.
* Various fixes and enhancements for the network testcases.
* Support for NUMA API older than v2 was dropped from the testcases.
* The configure script now correctly detects devel libraries on -m32 build.
* Another large scale cleanup using coccinelle was done on the code base.
We transformed patterns such as:
if (scall(...) < 0)
tst_brkm(TBROK, ...);
into:
SAFE_SCALL();
Which will produce unified and more verbose error reporting in case
that the call to scall() will fail.
* The runltp script now lists test skipped by the skipfile parameter as skipped
in the testrun results, these were missing from it previously.
* 24 testcases were cleaned up and converted to the new test library
+ The usual amount of fixes all over the code base
Downloads and links:
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The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux
and can be downloaded at:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/releases/tag/20180118
The project pages as well as GIT repository are hosted on GitHub:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
http://linux-test-project.github.io/
If you ever wondered how to write a LTP testcase, don't miss our developer
documentation at:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Case-Tutorial
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/BuildSystem
Patches, new tests, bugs, comments or questions should go to to our mailing
list at [email protected].
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Cyril Hrubis
[email protected]