Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: Drop invalid top-level local in test_ownership

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

Shuah,

Ping?

-- Steve


On Wed, 13 May 2026 11:02:08 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Shuah,
> 
> Can you pull this into your urgent branch?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 20:37:27 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > Shuah,
> > 
> > Care to take this through your tree. Probably could even add:
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 8b55572e51805 ("tracing/selftests: Add tracefs mount options test")
> > 
> > As well as:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > -- Steve
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue,  7 Apr 2026 18:26:13 +0800
> > CaoRuichuang <create0818@163.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > From: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@163.com>
> > > 
> > > test_ownership.tc is sourced by ftracetest under /bin/sh.
> > > 
> > > The script currently declares mount_point with local at file scope,
> > > which makes /bin/sh abort with "local: not in a function" before the
> > > test can reach the eventfs ownership checks.
> > > 
> > > Replace the top-level local declaration with a normal shell variable so
> > > kernels that support the gid= tracefs mount option can run the test at
> > > all.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@163.com>
> > > ---
> > >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> > > index e71cc3ad0..6d00d3c0f 100644
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> > > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> > >  original_group=`stat -c "%g" .`
> > >  original_owner=`stat -c "%u" .`
> > >  
> > > -local mount_point=$(get_mount_point)
> > > +mount_point=$(get_mount_point)
> > >  
> > >  mount_options=$(get_mnt_options "$mount_point")
> > >      
> >   
>