linux-test-project/ltp 20180118

LTP 20180118

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Since the last release 278 patches by 35 authors were merged.

Notable changes for this release include:

• New tests for:

  • unshare(1) command
  • ioctl07 test for RNDGETENTCNT ioctl()
  • new network MACsec testcases
  • new network IPsec SCTP and DCCP testcases

• New regression tests for:

  • CVE-2017-5754 aka meltdown
  • CVE-2017-12193 (test add_key04)
  • CVE-2017-15299 and CVE-2017-15951 (test request_key03)
  • CVE-2017-7308 (test setsockopt02)
  • CVE-2016-9604 (test keyctl08)
  • CVE-2017-15537 (test ptrace07)
  • CVE-2017-12192 (test keyctl07)
  • add_key03 regression test for kernel commit 237bbd29f7a0
  • keyctl06 regression test for kernel commit e645016abc80

• Fixed tests:

  • brk01 (test rewritten from scratch)
  • sigwaitinfo01 (fixed and enabled)
  • openposix aio testcases (uninitialized aiocb)
  • many smaller fixes

• Removed tests:

  • invalid openposix pthread_barrier_wait_6-1 test
  • tcp_cmds tests for rwho, echo, finger, and rdist.

• The test library gained support to run a particular test against
  different filesystems including FUSE filesystems such as NTFS or exFAT. The
  mkfs and kernel/FUSE support for a particular filesystem must be in-place
  otherwise the tests will skip it automatically.

  Some of the filesystem specific syscall tests such as fallocate() are
  executed this way now. We also have a new test that fills up filesystem
  using several threads and expects the syscalls to fail gracefully.

• The fuzzy synchronization library that is used to trigger races mostly in CVE
  testcases was rewritten to use one thread instead of starting a thread on
  each iteration, which is not only faster but also more stable since we
  introduce less random jitter to the timing measurements this way.

• Various fixes and enhancements for the network testcases.

• Support for NUMA API older than v2 was dropped from the testcases.

• The configure script now correctly detects devel libraries on -m32 build.

• Another large scale cleanup using coccinelle was done on the code base.

  We transformed patterns such as:

  if (scall(...) < 0)
  tst_brkm(TBROK, ...);

  into:

  SAFE_SCALL();

  Which will produce unified and more verbose error reporting in case
  that the call to scall() will fail.

• The runltp script now lists test skipped by the skipfile parameter as skipped
  in the testrun results, these were missing from it previously.

• 24 testcases were cleaned up and converted to the new test library

• The usual amount of fixes all over the code base