Since the last release 293 patches by 49 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

• New tests

  • ioctl_ns{01-07}: Tests for NS_GET_* ioctls
  • clock_adjtim{01,02}: New tests
  • userfaultfd01: New test
  • ioctl08: Test for FIDEDUPERANGE on Btrfs
  • sigpending02: New test for sigpending/rt_sigpending
  • pivot_root01: New test
  • tgkill{01-03}: New tests
  • set_mempolicy{01-04}: New tests
  • rt_tgsigqueueinfo01: New test
  • binfmt_misc02.sh: New functionality test
  • pwritev2{01-02}: New tests
  • rt_sigpending02: New test
  • fanotify12: New test for FAN_OPEN_EXEC event mask
  • clock_gettime{01,02}: New tests
  • fdatasync03: New test
  • fsync04: New test
  • sync03: New test
  • syncfs01: New test
  • setrlimit06: Add new test for RLIMIT_CPU
  • statx07: Add test for AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC and AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC
  • clock_settime{01,02}: New tests

• New regression tests

  • af_alg06: malformed authenc key 8f9c46934848
  • af_alg05: skcipher_walk error bug 8088d3dd4d7c
  • af_alg04: vmac race conditions bb2964810233
  • af_alg03: rfc7539 hash alg validation e57121d08c38
  • af_alg02: salsa20 empty message bug ecaaab564978 aka CVE-2017-17805
  • af_alg01: hmac nesting bug af3ff8045bbf aka CVE-2017-17806
  • binfmt_misc01.sh: 5cc41e099504 ("fs/binfmt_misc.c: do not allow offset overflow)

• Increased coverage

  • fanotify01: add FAN_REPORT_FID test cases
  • fanotify10: increase test coverage to support FAN_OPEN_EXEC mask
  • fanotify03: add FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERM

• New test variants API

  • The LTP test library gained support for test variants, with that we can
    test family of similar syscalls (i.e. different select syscalls) in a
    single test.

  • stime: Test 3 variants

  • sigpending: Test 3 variants

  • select04: Test 4 variants

• Various fixes for Android Bionic libc (both build and runtime) and musl libc
  are included in this release

• Additional 22 tests were converted to the new test library

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

• New testcases

  • ipsec: test also randomized message length
  • features: new checksum testcases
  • virt: add mode l3s in ipvlan test
  • netstress: support SO_REUSEPORT, MSG_ZEROCOPY

• Various tests converted into new API

  • (arping01, broken_ip, clockdiff01, ip_tests.sh, ping0{1|0}, tracepath, traceroute)

• Various small fixes and enhancements, most notable ones:

  • dhcp: correct prefix for expected IPv6 address)
  • lower down packet size to minimum, which still be high enough to require
    fragmentation. This is critical for performance tests, which compare
    virtual devices with the real ones.
  • netstress: various fixes to avoid false-positives
  • dhcp: AppArmor and SELinux fixes, fix paths for non-RHEL distros

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20190115..

40  Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
39  Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
28  Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
17  Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
15  Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
15  Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
14  Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@linaro.org>
12  Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
11  Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
 9  Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
 7  Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
 7  Jinhui huang <huangjh.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 7  Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 7  Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
 6  Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
 6  Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 5  Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
 4  Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
 3  Christian Amann <camann@suse.com>
 3  Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
 3  Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
 3  Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
 2  Federico Bonfiglio <fedebonfi95@gmail.com>
 2  Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@linux.alibaba.com>
 2  Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 2  Paul Lawrence <paullawrence@google.com>
 2  Zhengwang Ruan <ruanzw@xiaopeng.com>
 1  Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
 1  Amir Goldstein <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
 1  Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 1  Daniel Diaz <daniel.diaz@linaro.org>
 1  Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
 1  Elif Aslan <elas@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 1  Esteban Flores <esflores@microsoft.com>
 1  Guangwen Feng <fenggw-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
 1  He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
 1  Jan Baier <jbaier@suse.cz>
 1  Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.ibm.com>
 1  Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
 1  Ramon Pantin <pantin@google.com>
 1  Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
 1  Roman Kalashnikov <lunix0x@gmail.com>
 1  Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>
 1  Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
 1  Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
 1  Vaishnavi <vaishnavi.d@zilogic.com>
 1  Xiao Liang <xiliang@redhat.com>
 1  Yixin Zhang <yixin.zhang@intel.com>
 1  supersojo <suyanjun218@163.com>

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20190115.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

 73 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
 20 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
 20 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
 11 Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 11 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
  9 Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
  7 Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
  7 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
  5 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
  5 Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
  3 Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
  2 Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
  1 Xiong Zhou <xzhou@redhat.com>
  1 Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>
  1 Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.ibm.com>
  1 Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
  1 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
  1 Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com
  1 Cyril Hrubis <metan@ucw.cz>
  1 Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
  1 Alessio Balsini <balsini@google.com>