This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ktest: Fix child exit code processing 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: ktest-fix-child-exit-code-processing.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. >From 32677207dcc5e594254b7fb4fb2352b1755b1d5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:05:25 -0500 Subject: ktest: Fix child exit code processing From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 32677207dcc5e594254b7fb4fb2352b1755b1d5b upstream. The child_exit errno needs to be shifted by 8 bits to compare against the return values for the bisect variables. Fixes: c5dacb88f0a64 ("ktest: Allow overriding bisect test results") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl @@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@ sub do_run_test { } waitpid $child_pid, 0; - $child_exit = $?; + $child_exit = $? >> 8; my $end_time = time; $test_time = $end_time - $start_time; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ktest-fix-child-exit-code-processing.patch