Good news everyone,
the Linux Test Project test suite stable release for *May 2022* has been
released.
Since the last release 298 patches by 25 authors were merged.
Patch review is what most of the projects struggle with and LTP is no
different. If you can spare some effort helping with the patch review is more
than welcomed.
NOTABLE CHANGES
===============
* New tests
- kvm_pagefault01: aka CVE-2021-38198
- fcntl39: test for DN_RENAME (dnotify)
- io_control01: first cgroup IO controller test
- keyctl09: test encrypted keys with provided decrypted data
- memcontrol03, memcontrol04: tests that cgroup memory is partitioned correctly under pressure
- setsockopt09: regression test for use-after-free in prb_retire_rx_blk_timer_expired()
- setsockopt09: regression test for double free of rx_owner_map aka CVE-2021-22600
- pty07: regression test for use-after-free in vt_ioctl()
- pty06: regression test for VT_DISALLOCATE freeing in-use virtual console
- pidfd_getfd01 basic functional test
- pidfd_getfd02 basic error test
- pidfd_open04 test with PIDFD_NONBLOCK flag
- futex_waitv01 error tests
- futex_waitv02 basic functional test with private memory
- futex_waitv03 basic functional test with shared memory
- inotify11: test opening files after receiving IN_DELETE
regression test for a37d9a17f099 (fsnotify: invalidate dcache before IN_DELETE event)
- statx09 test for STATX_ATTR_VERITY
- wqueue09 tests WATCH_META_LOSS_NOTIFICATION event
- wqueue08 tests WATCH_META_REMOVAL_NOTIFICATION event
- wqueue07 tests NOTIFY_KEY_SETATTR event
- wqueue06 tests NOTIFY_KEY_CLEARED event
- wqueue05 tests NOTIFY_KEY_INVALIDATED event
- wqueue04 tests NOTIFY_KEY_LINKED event
- wqueue03 tests NOTIFY_KEY_REVOKED event
- wqueue02 tests NOTIFY_KEY_UNLINKED event
- wqueue01 tests NOTIFY_KEY_UPDATED event
* Increased coverage
- fanotify14, fanotify16: Add tests for FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID and FAN_RENAME
- futex_waitv01: Add test verifies EINVAL for invalid nr_futexes
- getcontext01: Test rewritten so that it actually jumps back
- fstat02: Validate st_nlink as well
- sched_get_priority_max01, sched_get_priority_min01: Add missing policies
* KVM library was written for LTP
- a simple library that can spin up a VM and execute payload
- see also https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/KVM-Test-API
* The concept of test runtime was introduced
- for details see https://people.kernel.org/metan/test-timeout-and-runtime
* Removed tests
- syslog tests as these were testing mostly userspace syslog daemon
and were broken for most of the syslog daemon implementations
* The test library was fixed to terminate all leftover processes in the case
that the main test process dies or exits
* New sparse check for {} terminator for struct arrays in tst_test has been
implemented
* Shell library improvements
- added support for $TST_FORMAT_DEVICE (.format_device in C API)
- preparations for shell API get support for testing on all filesystems (.all_filesystems in C API)
- getopts cleanup and changes how is the library sources,
which resulted in much simpler library code
* Userns tests were rewritten into the new test API
* Mountns tests were rewritten into the new test API
* 33 tests were rewritten to the new library
+ The usual amount of fixes and cleanups
WHAT IS IN THE QUEUE
====================
In-flight patches include:
- CGroup shell test rewrite that should fix many problems
NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS
================================
brought to you by Petr Vorel
* Several fixes (e.g. important nfs_lib: Fix fsid randomisation)
* Ongoing discussion where should be SCTP testsuite home
DOWNLOAD AND LINKS
==================
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/20220527
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/Test-Writing-Guidelines
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-API
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Network-API
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Shell-Test-API
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Case-Tutorial
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].
CREDITS
=======
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -e -n 20220121..
72 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
51 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
42 Andrea Cervesato <[email protected]>
22 Li Wang <[email protected]>
21 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
17 Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
15 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
10 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
10 Zhao Gongyi <[email protected]>
7 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
6 Dai Shili <[email protected]>
6 Bogdan Lezhepekov <[email protected]>
4 tangmeng <[email protected]>
2 Chunyu Hu <[email protected]>
2 Kushal Chand <[email protected]>
2 xiaoshoukui <[email protected]>
1 Alexander Ivanov <[email protected]>
1 Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
1 Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
1 Edward Liaw via ltp <[email protected]>
1 Fabrice Fontaine <[email protected]>
1 Pavel Tikhomirov <[email protected]>
1 Wang Kunfeng via ltp <[email protected]>
1 Yael Tzur via ltp <[email protected]>
1 ihsinme <[email protected]>
And also thanks to patch reviewers:
git log 20220121.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
148 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
105 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
73 Li Wang <[email protected]>
21 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
17 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
10 Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
6 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
1 Waiman Long <[email protected]>
1 Jan Kara <[email protected]>
1 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]>
1 Andrea Cervesato <[email protected]>
1 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
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Cyril Hrubis
[email protected]