APPLIED: [X][B][D][SRU][PATCH 0/1] selftests/net: skip psock_tpacket test if KALLSYMS was not enabled

[Khaled Elmously]

Thanks!

On 2020-04-27 16:55:05 , Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> == SRU Justification ==
> The psock_tpacket test will need to access /proc/kallsyms, this would
> require the kernel config CONFIG_KALLSYMS to be enabled first.
> 
> It causes the test to fail with the following error on our KVM kernels:
>   test: TPACKET_V1 with PACKET_RX_RING open: No such file or directory
> 
> Apart from adding CONFIG_KALLSYMS to the net/config file here, check the
> file existence to determine if we can run this test will be helpful to
> avoid a false-positive test result when testing it directly with the
> following commad against a kernel that have CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled:
>     make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=net run_tests
> 
> == Fix ==
> * ff95bf28c234 ("selftests/net: skip psock_tpacket test if KALLSYMS was
>  not enabled")
> 
> This patch can be cherry-picked into Disco, but needs to be backported
> for X/B as they don't have an up-to-date config list.
> 
> == Test ==
> Tested on KVM kernels and this patch works as expected.
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low, changes limited to the testing tool.
> 
> Po-Hsu Lin (1):
>   selftests/net: skip psock_tpacket test if KALLSYMS was not enabled
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/config            |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/run_afpackettests | 14 +++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
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