This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tc-testing: don't access non-existent variable on exception to the 5.4-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: tc-testing-don-t-access-non-existent-variable-on-exc.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3d1a569663cdee596dddfa6f36bf5275f9924080 Author: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 15 16:37:13 2024 +0100 tc-testing: don't access non-existent variable on exception [ Upstream commit a0c9fe5eecc97680323ee83780ea3eaf440ba1b7 ] Since commit 255c1c7279ab ("tc-testing: Allow test cases to be skipped") the variable test_ordinal doesn't exist in call_pre_case(). So it should not be accessed when an exception occurs. This resolves the following splat: ... During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../tdc.py", line 1028, in <module> main() File ".../tdc.py", line 1022, in main set_operation_mode(pm, parser, args, remaining) File ".../tdc.py", line 966, in set_operation_mode catresults = test_runner_serial(pm, args, alltests) File ".../tdc.py", line 642, in test_runner_serial (index, tsr) = test_runner(pm, args, alltests) File ".../tdc.py", line 536, in test_runner res = run_one_test(pm, args, index, tidx) File ".../tdc.py", line 419, in run_one_test pm.call_pre_case(tidx) File ".../tdc.py", line 146, in call_pre_case print('test_ordinal is {}'.format(test_ordinal)) NameError: name 'test_ordinal' is not defined Fixes: 255c1c7279ab ("tc-testing: Allow test cases to be skipped") Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240815-tdc-test-ordinal-v1-1-0255c122a427@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc.py b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc.py index e566c70e64a19..81f76a5d12ac6 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc.py +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc.py @@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ class PluginMgr: except Exception as ee: print('exception {} in call to pre_case for {} plugin'. format(ee, pgn_inst.__class__)) - print('test_ordinal is {}'.format(test_ordinal)) print('testid is {}'.format(caseinfo['id'])) raise