This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/x86/syscall_nt: Clear weird flags after each test
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selftests-x86-syscall_nt-clear-weird-flags-after-eac.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b3674911656b639faca25145c87b874dd7cc07f9
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 26 10:21:15 2020 -0700
selftests/x86/syscall_nt: Clear weird flags after each test
[ Upstream commit a61fa2799ef9bf6c4f54cf7295036577cececc72 ]
Clear the weird flags before logging to improve strace output --
logging results while, say, TF is set does no one any favors.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/907bfa5a42d4475b8245e18b67a04b13ca51ffdb.1593191971.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c
index 43fcab367fb0a..74e6b3fc2d09e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static void do_it(unsigned long extraflags)
set_eflags(get_eflags() | extraflags);
syscall(SYS_getpid);
flags = get_eflags();
+ set_eflags(X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED);
if ((flags & extraflags) == extraflags) {
printf("[OK]\tThe syscall worked and flags are still set\n");
} else {
