Patch "perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

to the 3.18-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:
     perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 foo@baz Tue Dec  5 18:18:39 CET 2017
From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:12:09 +0200
Subject: perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]

Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always
reports success even if the test case fails.  It works correctly if you
also specify -F (for don't fork).

   root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16
   15: Setup struct perf_event_attr               :
   --- start ---
   running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
     (1 samples) ]
   expected task=0, got 1
   expected precise_ip=0, got 3
   expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
   FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
   test child finished with 0
   ---- end ----
   Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and
returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.

This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only
handle values 0-0xff.

The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does
not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test
result.

Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/perf/tests/attr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const
 	snprintf(cmd, 3*PATH_MAX, PYTHON " %s/attr.py -d %s/attr/ -p %s %.*s",
 		 d, d, perf, vcnt, v);
 
-	return system(cmd);
+	return system(cmd) ? TEST_FAIL : TEST_OK;
 }
 
 int test__attr(void)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-3.18/perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch