From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "selftests: vDSO: skip getrandom test if architecture is unsupported" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 16:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZvwLAib3296hIwI_@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433ff0ca-92d1-475e-ad8b-d4416601d4ba@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 08:43:05AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 9/30/24 21:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > This is not stable material and I didn't mark it as such. Do not backport.
>
> The way selftest work is they just skip if a feature isn't supported.
> As such this test should run gracefully on stable releases.
>
> I would say backport unless and skip if the feature isn't supported.
Nonsense. 6.11 never returns ENOSYS from vDSO. This doesn't make sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-01 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20240930231443.2560728-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2024-10-01 3:56 ` Patch "selftests: vDSO: skip getrandom test if architecture is unsupported" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-01 14:43 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-01 14:45 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2024-10-01 14:56 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-01 15:03 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-01 15:29 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-02 4:13 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-02 6:21 ` Greg KH
2024-10-02 17:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-02 19:45 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-02 21:01 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-03 16:53 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-03 16:58 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-10-03 17:22 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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