Patch "ktest: Fix child exit code processing" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "ktest: Fix child exit code processing" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ktest: Fix child exit code processing

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ktest-fix-child-exit-code-processing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 32677207dcc5e594254b7fb4fb2352b1755b1d5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:05:25 -0500
Subject: ktest: Fix child exit code processing

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 32677207dcc5e594254b7fb4fb2352b1755b1d5b upstream.

The child_exit errno needs to be shifted by 8 bits to compare against the
return values for the bisect variables.

Fixes: c5dacb88f0a64 ("ktest: Allow overriding bisect test results")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl
+++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl
@@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@ sub do_run_test {
     }
 
     waitpid $child_pid, 0;
-    $child_exit = $?;
+    $child_exit = $? >> 8;
 
     my $end_time = time;
     $test_time = $end_time - $start_time;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@goodmis.org are

queue-4.9/ktest-fix-child-exit-code-processing.patch