On 2023-08-22 15:58 +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When kselftest is built/installed with the 'gen_tar' target, rsync is
> used for the installation step to copy files. Extra care is needed for
> tests that have symlinks. Commit ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix
> cross-tree inclusion of scripts") added '-L' (transform symlink into
> referent file/dir) to rsync, to fix dangling links. However, that
> broke some tests where the symlink (being a symlink) is part of the
> test (e.g. exec:execveat).
>
> Use rsync's '--copy-unsafe-links' that does right thing.
>
> Fixes: ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix cross-tree inclusion of scripts")
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you for the fix.
