Good news everyone,
the Linux Test Project test suite stable release for *September 2019* has been
released.
Since the last release 267 patches by 41 authors were merged.
NOTABLE CHANGES
===============
* New tests
- Basic eBPF map and program load tests
- Netlink uevent socket tests
- Basic ioprio() tests
- Basic sendmmsg() test
- mbind() tests
- Memory protection (pkey) tests
- prctl() with PR_CAP_AMBIENT
- prctl() with PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS
- prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_NAME
- prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_SECCOMP
- futext_cmp_requeue() tests
- fanotify FAN_REPORT_FID tests
- fanotify overlayfs tests
- pidfd_send_signal() tests
- IMA overlay tests
- acct() tests
- preadv2() RWF_NOWAIT tests
* New tests variants for
- clock_getres()
* New regression tests
- bpf_prog02: regression test for 3612af783cf52c (bpf: fix sanitation rewrite
in case of non-pointers)
- timer_create() aka CVE-2017-18344
- alsa timer race aka CVE-2017-1000380
- accept02 aka CVE-2017-8890
- setsockopt04 aka CVE-2016-9793
- move_pages12: regression tests for:
e66f17ff7177 (mm/hugetlb: take page table lock in follow_huge_pmd())
c9d398fa2378 (mm, hugetlb: use pte_present() instead of pmd_present() in
follow_huge_pmd())
4643d67e8cb0 (hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing
SIGBUS)
- crypto_user02: regression test for 21d4120ec6f5 ("crypto: user - prevent
operating on larval algorithms")
- sysctl02: regression test for 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for
file-max")
* Increased coverage
- copy_file_range()
- tests for cross device copy
- tests for invalid files (swapfile, pipe, ...)
- intel PT tests
- sync_file_range()
- added partial range sync
* Added syscall tables for MIPS
* Guarded buffers, which are pages followed by a PROT_NONE and preceeded by a
canary were introduced and 8 tests were changed to make use of the new
feature. Also newly implemented tests are using the same buffers as well.
* Additional 36 tests were converted to the new test library
NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS
================================
brought to you by Peter Vorel
* New net features:
- introduce TST_GET_UNUSED_PORT() macro into C API
* Rewritten to new API:
- tst_get_unused_port
- bind01
- setdomainname
- sethostname
+ The usuall amount of fixes and cleanups.
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/20190930
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 l...@lists.linux.it.
CREDITS
=======
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -e -n 20190517..
68 Petr Vorel <pvo...@suse.cz>
45 Cyril Hrubis <chru...@suse.cz>
27 Yang Xu <xuyang2018...@cn.fujitsu.com>
19 Christian Amann <cam...@suse.com>
17 Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com>
9 Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.com>
8 Li Wang <liw...@redhat.com>
7 Murphy Zhou <xz...@redhat.com>
6 Jinhui huang <huangjh...@cn.fujitsu.com>
5 Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
5 Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu....@canonical.com>
5 Sandeep Patil <sspa...@android.com>
5 Yixin Zhang <yixin.zh...@intel.com>
4 Joerg Vehlow <joerg.veh...@aox-tech.de>
4 Xiao Yang <ice_yangx...@163.com>
3 He Zhe <zhe...@windriver.com>
3 Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrow...@mbobrowski.org>
2 Caspar Zhang <cas...@linux.alibaba.com>
2 Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
2 Steve Muckle <smuc...@google.com>
1 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.koda...@oracle.com>
1 Ammy Yi <ammy...@intel.com>
1 Hongzhi.Song <hongzhi.s...@windriver.com>
1 Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com>
1 Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
1 Martin Doucha <martin.dou...@suse.com>
1 Mathias Fiedler <mathias.fied...@aox-tech.de>
1 Michael Moese <mmo...@suse.de>
1 Murphy Zhou <jencce.ker...@gmail.com>
1 Petr Cervinka <pcervi...@suse.com>
1 Ping Fang <pif...@redhat.com>
1 Piotr Gawel <piotr.krzysztof.ga...@gmail.com>
1 Steven Price <steven.pr...@arm.com>
1 Sultan Alsawaf <sul...@kerneltoast.com>
1 Sumit Garg <sumit.g...@linaro.org>
1 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@canonical.com>
1 Tobias Jordan <knilch-...@cdqe.de>
1 Wu,Haiqiang <frequentem...@126.com>
1 Yann Sionneau <ysionn...@kalray.eu>
1 Yi Zhao <yi.z...@windriver.com>
1 Yu,Siliang <siliangx...@intel.com>
And also thanks to patch reviewers:
git log 20190517.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort
| uniq -c | sort -n -r
94 Cyril Hrubis <chru...@suse.cz>
42 Li Wang <liw...@redhat.com>
16 Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
13 Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com>
11 Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.de>
7 Petr Vorel <pvo...@suse.cz>
6 Xiao Yang <ice_yangx...@163.com>
6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad <cfamullacon...@suse.de>
5 Yang Xu <xuyang2018...@cn.fujitsu.com>
4 Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.ibm.com>
4 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.koda...@oracle.com>
3 Sumit Garg <sumit.g...@linaro.org>
2 Murphy Zhou <jencce.ker...@gmail.com>
2 Ignaz Forster <ifors...@suse.de>
1 Sandeep Patil <sspa...@android.com>
1 Richard Palethorpe <rpaletho...@suse.com>
1 Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com>
1 Christian Amann <cam...@suse.com>
--
Cyril Hrubis
chru...@suse.cz
