This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: timers: clocksource-switch: fix passing errors from child to the 4.9-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-timers-clocksource-switch-fix-passing-erro.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit de55e21649e92a9b4b4635bd8bdfd0260fe52c20 Author: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 13 22:46:17 2022 +0200 selftests: timers: clocksource-switch: fix passing errors from child [ Upstream commit 4d8f52ac5fa9eede7b7aa2f2d67c841d9eeb655f ] The return value from system() is a waitpid-style integer. Do not return it directly because with the implicit masking in exit() it will always return 0. Access it with appropriate macros to really pass on errors. Fixes: 7290ce1423c3 ("selftests/timers: Add clocksource-switch test from timetest suite") Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c index fd88e3025bed..9c00db829b9c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c @@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ int run_tests(int secs) sprintf(buf, "./inconsistency-check -t %i", secs); ret = system(buf); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (WIFEXITED(ret) && WEXITSTATUS(ret)) + return WEXITSTATUS(ret); ret = system("./nanosleep"); - return ret; + return WIFEXITED(ret) ? WEXITSTATUS(ret) : 0; }