The patch titled Subject: selftests/vm: fix an improper dependency upon executable script permissions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: selftests/vm: fix an improper dependency upon executable script permissions commit 30fb9454ab23 ("selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency") created the new check_config.sh file without the execute bit set. This is a problem because that same commit caused the Makefile to invoke it "./check_config.sh", so now "make" is failing in that directory. Scripts are not supposed to depend on the executable bit being set, because patch(1) doesn't set it, and using patch to install a kernel is supported. Therefore, this fix involves two parts: 1) Invoke the new script via /bin/sh, to fix the problem, and 2) As an nice touch, make check_config.sh executable as well. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201003002142.32671-2-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: commit 30fb9454ab23 ("selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency") Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile~selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency-fix +++ a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)/hmm-tests: local_config.h $(OUTPUT)/hmm-tests: LDLIBS += $(HMM_EXTRA_LIBS) local_config.mk local_config.h: check_config.sh - ./check_config.sh $(CC) + /bin/sh ./check_config.sh $(CC) EXTRA_CLEAN += local_config.mk local_config.h _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-dump_page-rename-head_mapcount-head_compound_mapcount.patch mm-gup-protect-unpin_user_pages-against-npages==-errno.patch selftests-vm-fix-false-build-success-on-the-second-and-later-attempts.patch selftests-vm-fix-incorrect-gcc-invocation-in-some-cases.patch selftests-vm-8x-compaction_test-speedup.patch mm-gup_benchmark-rename-to-mm-gup_test.patch selftests-vm-use-a-common-gup_testh.patch selftests-vm-rename-run_vmtests-run_vmtestssh.patch selftests-vm-minor-cleanup-makefile-and-gup_testc.patch selftests-vm-only-some-gup_test-items-are-really-benchmarks.patch selftests-vm-gup_test-introduce-the-dump_pages-sub-test.patch selftests-vm-run_vmtestsh-update-and-clean-up-gup_test-invocation.patch selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency.patch selftests-vm-hmm-tests-remove-the-libhugetlbfs-dependency-fix.patch