This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail
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-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.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 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:03:10 -0700
Subject: selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b upstream.
Fix a logic error that caused the test to exit with 0 even if test
cases failed.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: bartoldeman@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1cc37144038958a469c8f70a5f47a6a5638636a.1521003603.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int main(void)
clearhandler(SIGSEGV);
/* Make sure nothing explodes if we fork. */
- if (fork() > 0)
+ if (fork() == 0)
return 0;
return (nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-the-str-and-sldt-instructions.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-objtool-annotate-indirect-calls-jumps-for-objtool-on-32-bit-kernels.patch
queue-4.9/x86-vm86-32-fix-popf-emulation.patch
queue-4.9/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-user-mode-instruction-prevention.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-use-pxd_large.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-make-mmap-map_32bit-work-correctly.patch
queue-4.9/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-add-test-cases-for-popf.patch
queue-4.9/x86-boot-32-defer-resyncing-initial_page_table-until-per-cpu-is-set-up.patch
queue-4.9/x86-boot-32-fix-up-boot-on-quark-and-possibly-other-platforms.patch
queue-4.9/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.patch