[merged mm-stable] selftests-mm-drop-unnecessary-sudo-usage.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] selftests-mm-drop-unnecessary-sudo-usage.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: drop unnecessary sudo usage
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     selftests-mm-drop-unnecessary-sudo-usage.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: drop unnecessary sudo usage
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:18:20 +0000

This script must be run as root anyway (see all the writing to privileged
files in /proc etc).

Remove the unnecessary use of sudo to avoid breaking on single-user
systems that don't have sudo.  This also avoids confusing readers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311-mm-selftests-v4-9-dec210a658f5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh~selftests-mm-drop-unnecessary-sudo-usage
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ CATEGORY="madv_populate" run_test ./madv
 
 if [ -x ./memfd_secret ]
 then
-(echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope 2>&1) | tap_prefix
+(echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope 2>&1) | tap_prefix
 CATEGORY="memfd_secret" run_test ./memfd_secret
 fi
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jackmanb@google.com are

scripts-gdb-add-lx_per_cpu_ptr.patch