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From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
To: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>
Cc: "Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@rivosinc.com>,
	"Jonathan Toppins" <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: Keep symlinks, when possible
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:49:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZOTZHhGLnQKOhITt@d3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230822135837.280967-1-bjorn@kernel.org>

On 2023-08-22 15:58 +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
> 
> When kselftest is built/installed with the 'gen_tar' target, rsync is
> used for the installation step to copy files. Extra care is needed for
> tests that have symlinks. Commit ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix
> cross-tree inclusion of scripts") added '-L' (transform symlink into
> referent file/dir) to rsync, to fix dangling links. However, that
> broke some tests where the symlink (being a symlink) is part of the
> test (e.g. exec:execveat).
> 
> Use rsync's '--copy-unsafe-links' that does right thing.
> 
> Fixes: ae108c48b5d2 ("selftests: net: Fix cross-tree inclusion of scripts")
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>

Thank you for the fix.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-22 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-22 13:58 [PATCH] selftests: Keep symlinks, when possible Björn Töpel
2023-08-22 15:49 ` Benjamin Poirier [this message]

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