On Wed, Jul 15 2026 at 12:51, Florian Schmaus via wrote: > From: Florian Schmaus <[email protected]> > > When kselftests are built and installed using "make install" or > integrated into other build systems (such as Yocto's "devtool > modify"), the source tree might be owned by a non-root developer user. > > Because the installation scripts use "rsync -a", which implies -o and > -g, the installed test binaries and scripts are explicitly assigned > the UID/GID of the source tree owner instead of the user running the > install command. This results in UID leaks into the root filesystem. > > Fix this by explicitly adding --no-owner --no-group to all rsync > invocations across the selftests Makefiles so that the installed files > are owned by the installing user (typically root). > > Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
