Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:14:46 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We had just forgotten to do this. >> >> Fixes: 39258f448d71 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader") >> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh | 0 >> 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> mode change 100644 => 100755 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh >> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh >> old mode 100644 >> new mode 100755 > > This is pretty fragile - I'm not sure that patch/diff are capable of > communicating a bare chmod. If someone does a "patch -p1 < patch-4.14" > or whatever, this change is likely to get lost. > > It's more robust to not care about the x bit at all. Something like > this? > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk~a > +++ a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ all: $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_ > define RUN_TESTS > @for TEST in $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_PROGS); do \ > BASENAME_TEST=`basename $$TEST`; \ > - cd `dirname $$TEST`; (./$$BASENAME_TEST && echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [PASS]") || echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [FAIL]"; cd -;\ > + cd `dirname $$TEST`; (/bin/sh ./$$BASENAME_TEST && echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [PASS]") || echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [FAIL]"; cd -;\ > done; > endef Most (many?) of the tests aren't shell scripts, so that doesn't work, eg: $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/ TARGETS=kcmp run_tests ... make[1]: Entering directory '/home/michael/linus/tools/testing/selftests/kcmp' ./kcmp_test: 1: ./kcmp_test: ELF...0.@�.@@..@@.@.�.�..........����.��.�.�...�.�..�.�.�.....DD.Q�td.R�td.����.��../lib64/ld64.so.2..GNU...GNUC{: not found ./kcmp_test: 13: ./kcmp_test: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string selftests: kcmp_test [FAIL] Also some of the ones which are shell scripts require bash, and /bin/sh may not be bash, eg: $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/ TARGETS=cpu-hotplug run_tests ... make[1]: Entering directory '/home/michael/linus/tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug' ./cpu-on-off-test.sh: 9: [: !=: unexpected operator cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html