This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: openat2: Print also errno in failure messages to the 5.16-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-openat2-print-also-errno-in-failure-messag.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9c885445b97c89b324df626f695556257f222fd4 Author: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 26 10:27:21 2022 +0000 selftests: openat2: Print also errno in failure messages [ Upstream commit e051cdf655fa016692008a446a060eff06222bb5 ] In E_func() macro, on error, print also errno in order to aid debugging. Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.h index a6ea27344db2d..ad5d0ba5b6ce9 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.h +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.h @@ -62,11 +62,12 @@ bool needs_openat2(const struct open_how *how); (similar to chroot(2)). */ #endif /* RESOLVE_IN_ROOT */ -#define E_func(func, ...) \ - do { \ - if (func(__VA_ARGS__) < 0) \ - ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s:%d %s failed\n", \ - __FILE__, __LINE__, #func);\ +#define E_func(func, ...) \ + do { \ + errno = 0; \ + if (func(__VA_ARGS__) < 0) \ + ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s:%d %s failed - errno:%d\n", \ + __FILE__, __LINE__, #func, errno); \ } while (0) #define E_asprintf(...) E_func(asprintf, __VA_ARGS__)