Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/selftests: Add ownership modification tests for eventfs

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:48:41 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:28:13 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:21:48 +0900
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > The testcase itself is OK but is there any way to identify the system
> > > supports eventfs or not? I ran this test on v6.5.13 for checking then
> > > it failed. We may need to skip (unsupported) this test for such case.
> > 
> > Hmm, honestly, it should technically work on all past versions.
> > 
> > I'll try it out to see what fails for 6.5.13. Perhaps there was another bug
> > that the stable releases need fixing for?
> 
> I found that the failure was my environmental issue.
> BTW, for busybox environment, 
> 
> +instance="foo-$(mktemp -u XXXXX)"
> 
> This doesn't work. it needs XXXXXX (6 times X). And this is
> somewhat wrong usage of mktemp because it can not check there is
> foo-<random>.
> What about change it as
> 
> instance="$(mktemp -u foo-XXXXXX)"
> 
> ?

And I confirmed that this test passed on v6.5.13 with that change.

Thank you,

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > 
> > -- Steve
> 
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>


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