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 17:03:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZvwPTngjm_OEPZjt@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <279d123d-9a8d-446f-ac72-524979db6f7d@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 08:56:43AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/1/24 08:45, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not sure what you mean by Nonsense. ENOSYS can be used to skip??
The branch that this patch adds will never be reached in 6.11 because
the kernel does not have the corresponding code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-01 15:03 UTC|newest]
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[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
2024-10-01 14:56 ` Shuah Khan
2024-10-01 15:03 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
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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