On 10/12/2017 10:44 PM, Steve Muckle wrote: > When creating a pathname close to PATH_MAX to test execveat, factor in > the current working directory path otherwise we end up with an absolute > path that is longer than PATH_MAX. While execveat() may succeed, subsequent > calls to the kernel from the runtime environment which are required to > successfully execute the test binary/script may fail because of this. > > To keep the semantics of the test the same, rework the relative pathname > part of the test to be relative to the root directory so it isn't > decreased by the length of the current working directory path. > > Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the patch. I plan to get this into 4.15-rc1 -- Shuah -- 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
