Test $comm in kprobe-event argument syntax testcase
only if it is supported on the kernel because
$comm has been introduced 4.8 kernel.
So on older stable kernel, it should be skipped.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
---
.../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc
b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc
index d783a8ce0692..6f0f19953193 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc
@@ -75,8 +75,11 @@ test_badarg "\$stackp" "\$stack0+10" "\$stack1-10"
echo "r ${PROBEFUNC} \$retval" > kprobe_events
! echo "p ${PROBEFUNC} \$retval" > kprobe_events
+# $comm was introduced in 4.8, older kernels reject it.
+if grep -A1 "fetcharg:" README | grep -q '\$comm' ; then
: "Comm access"
test_goodarg "\$comm"
+fi
: "Indirect memory access"
test_goodarg "+0(${GOODREG})" "-0(${GOODREG})" "+10(\$stack)" \
