Since the last release 267 patches by 41 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

• New tests

  • Basic eBPF map and program load tests
  • Netlink uevent socket tests
  • Basic ioprio() tests
  • Basic sendmmsg() test
  • mbind() tests
  • Memory protection (pkey) tests
  • prctl() with PR_CAP_AMBIENT
  • prctl() with PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS
  • prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_NAME
  • prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_SECCOMP
  • futext_cmp_requeue() tests
  • fanotify FAN_REPORT_FID tests
  • fanotify overlayfs tests
  • pidfd_send_signal() tests
  • IMA overlay tests
  • acct() tests
  • preadv2() RWF_NOWAIT tests

• New tests variants for

  • clock_getres()

• New regression tests

  • bpf_prog02: regression test for 3612af783cf52c (bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers)
  • timer_create() aka CVE-2017-18344
  • alsa timer race aka CVE-2017-1000380
  • accept02 aka CVE-2017-8890
  • setsockopt04 aka CVE-2016-9793
  • move_pages12: regression tests for:
    e66f17ff7177 (mm/hugetlb: take page table lock in follow_huge_pmd())
    c9d398fa2378 (mm, hugetlb: use pte_present() instead of pmd_present() in follow_huge_pmd())
    4643d67e8cb0 (hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS)
  • crypto_user02: regression test for 21d4120ec6f5 ("crypto: user - prevent operating on larval algorithms")
  • sysctl02: regression test for 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max")

• Increased coverage

  • copy_file_range()
    • tests for cross device copy
    • tests for invalid files (swapfile, pipe, ...)
  • intel PT tests
  • sync_file_range()
    • added partial range sync

• Added syscall tables for MIPS

• Guarded buffers, which are pages followed by a PROT_NONE and preceeded by a
  canary were introduced and 8 tests were changed to make use of the new
  feature. Also newly implemented tests are using the same buffers as well.

• Additional 36 tests were converted to the new test library

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

• New net features:

  • introduce TST_GET_UNUSED_PORT() macro into C API

• Rewritten to new API:

  • tst_get_unused_port
  • bind01
  • setdomainname
  • sethostname

• The usuall amount of fixes and cleanups.

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20190517..

68  Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
45  Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
27  Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
19  Christian Amann <camann@suse.com>
17  Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
 9  Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
 8  Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 7  Murphy Zhou <xzhou@redhat.com>
 6  Jinhui huang <huangjh.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 5  Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
 5  Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@canonical.com>
 5  Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
 5  Yixin Zhang <yixin.zhang@intel.com>
 4  Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de>
 4  Xiao Yang <ice_yangxiao@163.com>
 3  He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
 3  Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
 2  Caspar Zhang <caspar@linux.alibaba.com>
 2  Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
 2  Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
 1  Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
 1  Ammy Yi <ammy.yi@intel.com>
 1  Hongzhi.Song <hongzhi.song@windriver.com>
 1  Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
 1  Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
 1  Martin Doucha <martin.doucha@suse.com>
 1  Mathias Fiedler <mathias.fiedler@aox-tech.de>
 1  Michael Moese <mmoese@suse.de>
 1  Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@gmail.com>
 1  Petr Cervinka <pcervinka@suse.com>
 1  Ping Fang <pifang@redhat.com>
 1  Piotr Gawel <piotr.krzysztof.gawel@gmail.com>
 1  Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
 1  Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
 1  Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
 1  Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
 1  Tobias Jordan <knilch-ltp@cdqe.de>
 1  Wu,Haiqiang <frequentemail@126.com>
 1  Yann Sionneau <ysionneau@kalray.eu>
 1  Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>
 1  Yu,Siliang <siliangx.yu@intel.com>

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20190517.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

 94 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
 42 Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 16 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
 13 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
 11 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.de>
  7 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
  6 Xiao Yang <ice_yangxiao@163.com>
  6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad <cfamullaconrad@suse.de>
  5 Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
  4 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
  4 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
  3 Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
  2 Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@gmail.com>
  2 Ignaz Forster <iforster@suse.de>
  1 Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
  1 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
  1 Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
  1 Christian Amann <camann@suse.com>