This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests: Keep symlinks, when possible
to the 6.5-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-keep-symlinks-when-possible.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b1170efcf9dbea8d445a73c7883696056ef03cf2
Author: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 22 15:58:37 2023 +0200
selftests: Keep symlinks, when possible
[ Upstream commit 3f3f384139ed147c71e1d770accf610133d5309b ]
When kselftest is built/installed with the 'gen_tar' target, rsync is
used for the installation step to copy files. Extra care is needed for
tests that have symlinks. Commit ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix
cross-tree inclusion of scripts") added '-L' (transform symlink into
referent file/dir) to rsync, to fix dangling links. However, that
broke some tests where the symlink (being a symlink) is part of the
test (e.g. exec:execveat).
Use rsync's '--copy-unsafe-links' that does right thing.
Fixes: ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix cross-tree inclusion of scripts")
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
index d17854285f2b6..118e0964bda94 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ endef
run_tests: all
ifdef building_out_of_srctree
@if [ "X$(TEST_PROGS)$(TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED)$(TEST_FILES)" != "X" ]; then \
- rsync -aLq $(TEST_PROGS) $(TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_FILES) $(OUTPUT); \
+ rsync -aq --copy-unsafe-links $(TEST_PROGS) $(TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_FILES) $(OUTPUT); \
fi
@if [ "X$(TEST_PROGS)" != "X" ]; then \
$(call RUN_TESTS, $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) \
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ endif
define INSTALL_SINGLE_RULE
$(if $(INSTALL_LIST),@mkdir -p $(INSTALL_PATH))
- $(if $(INSTALL_LIST),rsync -aL $(INSTALL_LIST) $(INSTALL_PATH)/)
+ $(if $(INSTALL_LIST),rsync -a --copy-unsafe-links $(INSTALL_LIST) $(INSTALL_PATH)/)
endef
define INSTALL_RULE
