Patch "selftest/powerpc: Fix false failures for skipped tests" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "selftest/powerpc: Fix false failures for skipped tests" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    selftest/powerpc: Fix false failures for skipped tests

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:
     selftest-powerpc-fix-false-failures-for-skipped-tests.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 Thu Dec 14 21:30:47 CET 2017
From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:38:39 +0530
Subject: selftest/powerpc: Fix false failures for skipped tests

From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit a6d8a21596df041f36f4c2ccc260c459e3e851f1 ]

Tests under alignment subdirectory are skipped when executed on previous
generation hardware, but harness still marks them as failed.

  test: test_copy_unaligned
  tags: git_version:unknown
  [SKIP] Test skipped on line 26
  skip: test_copy_unaligned
  selftests: copy_unaligned [FAIL]

The MAGIC_SKIP_RETURN_VALUE value assigned to rc variable is retained till
the program exit which causes the test to be marked as failed.

This patch resets the value before returning to the main() routine.
With this patch the test o/p is as follows:

  test: test_copy_unaligned
  tags: git_version:unknown
  [SKIP] Test skipped on line 26
  skip: test_copy_unaligned
  selftests: copy_unaligned [PASS]

Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/harness.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/harness.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/harness.c
@@ -105,9 +105,11 @@ int test_harness(int (test_function)(voi
 
 	rc = run_test(test_function, name);
 
-	if (rc == MAGIC_SKIP_RETURN_VALUE)
+	if (rc == MAGIC_SKIP_RETURN_VALUE) {
 		test_skip(name);
-	else
+		/* so that skipped test is not marked as failed */
+		rc = 0;
+	} else
 		test_finish(name, rc);
 
 	return rc;


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

queue-3.18/selftest-powerpc-fix-false-failures-for-skipped-tests.patch