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 [email protected].
CREDITS
=======
Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:
git shortlog -s -e -n 20190517..
68 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
45 Cyril Hrubis <[email protected]>
27 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
19 Christian Amann <[email protected]>
17 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
9 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
8 Li Wang <[email protected]>
7 Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
6 Jinhui huang <[email protected]>
5 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
5 Po-Hsu Lin <[email protected]>
5 Sandeep Patil <[email protected]>
5 Yixin Zhang <[email protected]>
4 Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>
4 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
3 He Zhe <[email protected]>
3 Matthew Bobrowski <[email protected]>
2 Caspar Zhang <[email protected]>
2 Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
2 Steve Muckle <[email protected]>
1 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
1 Ammy Yi <[email protected]>
1 Hongzhi.Song <[email protected]>
1 Khem Raj <[email protected]>
1 Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
1 Martin Doucha <[email protected]>
1 Mathias Fiedler <[email protected]>
1 Michael Moese <[email protected]>
1 Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
1 Petr Cervinka <[email protected]>
1 Ping Fang <[email protected]>
1 Piotr Gawel <[email protected]>
1 Steven Price <[email protected]>
1 Sultan Alsawaf <[email protected]>
1 Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
1 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
1 Tobias Jordan <[email protected]>
1 Wu,Haiqiang <[email protected]>
1 Yann Sionneau <[email protected]>
1 Yi Zhao <[email protected]>
1 Yu,Siliang <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
42 Li Wang <[email protected]>
16 Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
13 Jan Stancek <[email protected]>
11 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
7 Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
6 Xiao Yang <[email protected]>
6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad <[email protected]>
5 Yang Xu <[email protected]>
4 Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
4 Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
3 Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
2 Murphy Zhou <[email protected]>
2 Ignaz Forster <[email protected]>
1 Sandeep Patil <[email protected]>
1 Richard Palethorpe <[email protected]>
1 Enji Cooper <[email protected]>
1 Christian Amann <[email protected]>
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Cyril Hrubis
[email protected]
