Since the last release 297 patches by 38 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

• New testcases:

  • two inotify regression tests for:
    764baba80168 ("ovl: hash non-dir by lower inode for fsnotify")
    31747eda41ef ("ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify")

  • sysclt01 a regression test for:
    5ccba44ba118 ("sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg")

  • CVE regression tests for:

    • CVE-2017-17053 - ccd5b3235180 ("x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct")
    • CVE-2017-16939 - 1137b5e2529a ("ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash")
    • CVE-2015-3290 - 9b6e6a8334d5 ("x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry")
    • CVE-2017-17052 - 2b7e8665b4ff ("fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing use-after-free")
    • CVE-2017-17807 - 4dca6ea1d943 ("KEYS: add missing permission check for request_key() destination")

  • read_all

    Test that aims to stress test /proc, /sys and safe subset of /dev
    filesystems by reading by reading each readable file using several
    threads.

  • The pwritev03 and preadv03 tests with O_DIRECT executed on all supported filesystems.
    (https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#2214-testing-with-a-block-device)

  • Pids controller tests fixed a race that made them fail sporadically and
    the the coverage was increased.

  • pwrite03, write02

    Write syscall tests for special case with NULL buffer and len 0 where
    the call is expected to return 0 i.e. success.

• Removed outdated and broken tests

  • sssd daemon test
  • mail command test
  • ht_interrupt -- hyperthreading interrupt balancing test

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

• The syscalls testrun has been speeded up by about a minute which is 5% of the runtime.

• Several Android fixes have been applied.

• New macro for automatic retry with exponential backoff has been added to the
  test library, which should replace all the ad-hoc retry loops we do have all
  around the codebase.

• IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) tests

  • Were rewritten to use new API, updated, and various bugs has been fixed.

  • The most important changes:

    • Avoid running on tmpfs ima_measurements.sh and ima_violations.sh
    • ima_measurements.sh: support new IMA measurement templates, support testing
      most of IMA supported hash algorithms, fix & update iversion check
    • tpm.sh: replace ima_measure with evmctl (external)
    • ima_policy.sh: improve check of policy writability
    • ima_boot_aggregate: fixing event size for modern BIOS

    Many thanks to Mimi Zohar for her review and testing of IMA test cases.

• Plus the usual number of fixes and cleanups all over the place

NETWORK TESTS

Changelog for network tests brought to you by Peter Vorel.

• New testcases:

  • for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT, DCCP and UDP ipsec and for UDPLITE protocol
  • regression test sctp_big_chunk aka CVE-2018-5803
  • netstress gained support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT, SO_ZEROCOPY flags
    and UDPLITE protocol
  • Use libtirpc for all RPC tests

• Test cases rewritten into new shell API:

  • interface and multicast tests cases
  • in6_02

• Removed tests cases

  • route{4,6}-ifdown

• Various fixes and doc cleanups

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20180118..
76 Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
38 Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
37 Michael Moese mmoese@suse.de
30 Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com
21 Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
12 yang xu xuyang.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
9 Yixin Zhang yixin.zhang@intel.com
7 Jinhui Huang huangjh.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
7 Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.com
6 Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
6 Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
5 Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com
4 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon carenas@gmail.com
4 Stanislav Kholmanskikh stanislav.kholmanskikh@oracle.com
3 Petr Vorel petr.vorel@gmail.com
3 Steve Muckle smuckle.linux@gmail.com
2 Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org
2 Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com
2 Khem Raj raj.khem@gmail.com
2 Sandeep Patil sspatil@google.com
2 Sebastian Chlad schlad@suse.de
2 xiao yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
1 Christian Lanig clanig@suse.com
1 Dmitry Safonov dima@arista.com
1 Erick Reyes erickreyes@google.com
1 Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com
1 Harish harish@linux.vnet.ibm.com
1 Hoang Van Tuyen tuyen.hoangvan@toshiba-tsdv.com
1 Hridya Valsaraju hridya@google.com
1 Joe Konno joe.konno@intel.com
1 Lars Persson larper@axis.com
1 Lianwen Sun sunlw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
1 Pavel Boldin pboldin@cloudlinux.com
1 Qiao Zhao qiaozqjhsy@gmail.com
1 Xiong Zhou xzhou@redhat.com
1 Yang Pengfei yangpengfei4@huawei.com
1 akodanev akodanev@gmail.com
1 xie hui xieh.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
1 yosun yosun@suse.com

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20180118.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' |
sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
34 Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
15 Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
15 Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com
11 Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
7 Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.de
4 Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
3 Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2 Petr Vorel petr.vorel@gmail.com
2 James Morris james.l.morris@oracle.com
1 yang xu xuyang.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
1 Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com