On 07/04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:58 PM kernel test robot <xiaolong...@intel.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7):
>>
>> commit: 8bb2610bc4967f19672444a7b0407367f1540028 ("x86/entry/64/compat:
>> Preserve r8-r11 in int $0x80")
>> [...]
>> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire
>> log/backtrace):
>
>So that commit is expected to fix things, but it also *enabled* the
>selftests to warn about the change.
>
>Did you run the new selftest on an old kernel?
>
>It looks that way, because you talk about running the selftests for
>commit 8bb2610bc496 (which is 4.17-rc2+), but the dmesg you include is
>some ancient version"
>
> Linux version 4.12.0-10998-g6974f0c
Just double checked the attached dmesg, the version seems correct, did you
check the right one?
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.17.0-rc2-00006-g8bb2610 (kbuild@cairo) (gcc
version 7.3.0 (Debian 7.3.0-16)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 7 15:10:14 CST 2018
Thanks,
Xiaolong
>
>Hmm. Some of those self-tests are very much expected to break on old kernels.
>
> Linus
