Re: [PATCH] selftests/vm/keys: fix a broken reference at protection_keys.c

[Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>]

On 04/05/20 7:40 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/4/20 2:44 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Changeset 1eecbcdca2bd ("docs: move protection-keys.rst to the core-api book")
>> from Jun 7, 2019 converted protection-keys.txt file to ReST.
>>
>> A recent change at protection_keys.c partially reverted such
>> changeset, causing it to point to a non-existing file:
>>
>> 	- * Tests x86 Memory Protection Keys (see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst)
>> 	+ * Tests Memory Protection Keys (see Documentation/vm/protection-keys.txt)
>>
>> It sounds to me that the changeset that introduced such change
>> 4645e3563673 ("selftests/vm/pkeys: rename all references to pkru to a generic name")
>> could also have other side effects, as it sounds that it was not
>> generated against uptream code, but, instead, against a version
>> older than Jun 7, 2019.
>>
>> Fixes: 4645e3563673 ("selftests/vm/pkeys: rename all references to pkru to a generic name")
>> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> 
> Thanks for finding this!  The patch set which moved protection-keys.txt
> out of x86 code probably just missed this when it got rebased.  It
> originated well before June 2019, iirc.
> 

That's right. Sorry about that. Must have missed it when rebasing the
older pkey selftest patches. Thanks for fixing this Mauro.

Acked-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>