This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/resctrl: Check for return value after write_schemata()
to the 5.10-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-resctrl-check-for-return-value-after-write.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a1b86102feecd8f3ab3d813ff950c99c41880f0e
Author: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 15 15:06:00 2023 +0200
selftests/resctrl: Check for return value after write_schemata()
[ Upstream commit 0d45c83b95da414e98ad333e723141a94f6e2c64 ]
MBA test case writes schemata but it does not check if the write is
successful or not.
Add the error check and return error properly.
Fixes: 01fee6b4d1f9 ("selftests/resctrl: Add MBA test")
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
index 6449fbd96096a..6cfddd1d43558 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static int mba_setup(int num, ...)
struct resctrl_val_param *p;
char allocation_str[64];
va_list param;
+ int ret;
va_start(param, num);
p = va_arg(param, struct resctrl_val_param *);
@@ -45,7 +46,11 @@ static int mba_setup(int num, ...)
sprintf(allocation_str, "%d", allocation);
- write_schemata(p->ctrlgrp, allocation_str, p->cpu_no, p->resctrl_val);
+ ret = write_schemata(p->ctrlgrp, allocation_str, p->cpu_no,
+ p->resctrl_val);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
allocation -= ALLOCATION_STEP;
return 0;
