Re: Patch "selftests: vDSO: skip getrandom test if architecture is unsupported" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 09:29:45AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/1/24 09:03, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What should/would happen if this test is run on a kernel that doesn't
> support the feature?

The build system doesn't compile it for kernels without the feature.