Bryan, I've confirmed that the linkat01 test passes with this fix on
x86 with 2.6.21 kernel and arm on 2.6.33 kernel. Thanks!

Henry Yei <[email protected]>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Bryan Freed <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a fix for a failing LTP testcase.  Section 6 of the online LTP doc
> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_7 says I can
> request a test be added by sending to this list, and it looks from the
> archive like the subject line for patches should contain "[LTP][PATCH]", so
> here goes.  There appears to be no standard diff format, so I will use what
> is convenient...
> Running the ltp suite on ChromeOS (x86 with a 2.6.32 kernel) fails linkat01
> testcase 21:
>
> linkat01   21  TFAIL  :  linkat() failed: TEST_ERRNO=EXDEV(18): Invalid
> cross-device link
> This is probably because my /tmp is mounted from someplace other than the
> filesystem that contains newdirfd.
> The goal of testcase 21 is to demonstrate that linking a directory will fail
> EPERM.  The fix is to use olddir/. instead of /tmp.
> diff -urN
> ltp-full-20091231_vanilla/testcases/kernel/syscalls/linkat/linkat01.c
> ltp-full-20091231/testcases/kernel/syscalls/linkat/linkat01.c
> --- ltp-full-20091231_vanilla/testcases/kernel/syscalls/linkat/linkat01.c
>     2009-11-26 23:43:12.000000000 -0800
> +++ ltp-full-20091231/testcases/kernel/syscalls/linkat/linkat01.c
> 2010-04-12 16:28:59.000000000 -0700
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
>         { &cwd_fd, "/proc/cpuinfo", &newdirfd, TEST_FILE1, 0,
>           0, 0, EXDEV },
>         /* 21. directory link */
> -       { &cwd_fd, "/tmp", &newdirfd, TEST_FILE1, 0,
> +       { &olddirfd, ".", &newdirfd, TEST_FILE1, 0,
>           0, 0, EPERM },
>         /* 22. invalid flag */
>         { &olddirfd, TEST_FILE1, &newdirfd, TEST_FILE1, 1,
>
> Let me know if this is the incorrect process for upstreaming LTP patches.
> bryan.
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