On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:04:59PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote: > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> > > When running a test program, 'run_one()' checks if the program has the > execution permission and fails if it doesn't. However, it's easy to > mistakenly missing the permission, as some common tools like 'diff' > don't support the permission change well[1]. Compared to that, making > mistakes in the test program's path would only rare, as those are > explicitly listed in 'TEST_PROGS'. Therefore, it might make more sense > to resolve the situation on our own and run the program. > > For the reason, this commit makes the test program runner function to > still print the warning message but run the program after giving the > execution permission in the case. To make nothing corrupted, it also > restores the permission after running it. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/YRJisBs9AunccCD4@xxxxxxxxx/ > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh | 18 +++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh > index cc9c846585f0..2eb31e945709 100644 > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh > @@ -65,15 +65,16 @@ run_one() > > TEST_HDR_MSG="selftests: $DIR: $BASENAME_TEST" > echo "# $TEST_HDR_MSG" > - if [ ! -x "$TEST" ]; then > - echo -n "# Warning: file $TEST is " > - if [ ! -e "$TEST" ]; then > - echo "missing!" > - else > - echo "not executable, correct this." > - fi > + if [ ! -e "$TEST" ]; then > + echo "# Warning: file $TEST is missing!" > echo "not ok $test_num $TEST_HDR_MSG" > else > + permission_added="false" > + if [ ! -x "$TEST" ]; then > + echo "# Warning: file $TEST is not executable" > + chmod u+x "$TEST" > + permission_added="true" No, why would you change the permission of a test? What happens if this is on a read-only filesystem? You should not be modifying it as it will end up causing changes when not needed. thanks, greg k-h
