Since the last release 303 patches by 35 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

• New tests

  • finit_module()
  • init_module()
  • delete_module()
  • semctl09 for SEM_STAT_ANY flag
  • msgctl06 for MSG_STAT_ANY flag
  • shmctl04 for SHM_STAT_ANY flag
  • sendmmsg() failure tests
  • recvmmsg() failure tests
  • open_by_handle_at()
  • name_to_handle_at()
  • ptrace11 to check if we can trace PID 1
  • select04 failure tests
  • select04 to check if rfds/wfds flags are clered on empty/full fd

• New regression tests

  • inotify10 added test for fecc4559780d (fsnotify: fix events reported to watching parent and child)
  • fanotify09 for 7372e79c9eb9 (fanotify: fix logic of reporting name info with watched parent)
  • ptrace10 bd14406b78e6 (perf/hw_breakpoint: Modify breakpoint even if the new attr has disabled set)

• Increased coverage

  • fanotify09 added case with FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE on a sibling non-dir child

• Removed tests

  • sync01, sync02 these tests were useless so there was no point in keeping them

• The metadata extraction patchset was merged. LTP now produces metadata.json
  with a metadata for new library testcases and also html test catalogue build
  from the extracted metadata.

  https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/docparse/README.md

• Kernel .config parser was rewritten to support proper boolean expressions

• LTP now requires pkg-config > 0.23 (working version 0.24 was released in 2010)

• Error handling in test library (mostly SAFE_MACROS()) was unified

• High level test library overview was written:
  https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/lib/README.md

• IMA/EVM

  • fixed ima_tpm.sh for TPM 2.0 and for TPM 1.2 on kernel >= v5.8 (commit 6f1a1d103b48)
  • rewrote ima_boot_aggregate.c to new API

• 16 testcases were converted to the new test library

• The usual amount of fixes and cleanups.

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

• New tests

  • wireguard tests

• Fixes

  • fix various false-positive failures in tests using tst_netload
    (tests in net.features and net_stress.ipsec_* runtest files)
  • if-mtu-change.sh on s390x: fix max packet size for IPv4

• Compatibility fixes:

  • ping and traceroute from BusyBox
  • MUSL (netstress)
  • traceroute6 from iputils
  • various other fixes and cleanup

• Rewrite into new API

  • host01
  • netstat01.sh

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20200930..

88  Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
52  Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
25  Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
19  Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
18  Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
10  Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 8  Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
 8  Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
 8  Feiyu Zhu <zhufy.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 8  Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
 7  Radoslav Kolev <radoslav.kolev@suse.com>
 5  Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
 4  Cixi Geng <cixi.geng1@unisoc.com>
 4  Krzysztof Dynowski <k.dynowski@samsung.com>
 4  Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 4  Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@canonical.com>
 4  Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de>
 3  Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
 2  Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
 2  Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
 2  Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
 2  Tree Davies <tdavies@darkphysics.net>
 2  Yang Xu <xuyang_jy_0410@163.com>
 2  Bogdan Lezhepekov <bogdan.lezhepekov@suse.com>
 2  Johannes Nixdorf <j.nixdorf@avm.de>
 1  Alexander Egorenkov <Alexander.Egorenkov@ibm.com>
 1  Deepak Rawat <derawa@microsoft.com>
 1  Filip Bozuta <Filip.Bozuta@syrmia.com>
 1  Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
 1  Peter Bee <bijunda1@xiaomi.com>
 1  Petr Cervinka via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
 1  Punit Agrawal <punit1.agrawal@toshiba.co.jp>
 1  Radoslav Kolev via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
 1  Xinpeng Liu <liuxp11@chinatelecom.cn>
 1  bhargavdas <bhargav_das@mentor.com>

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20200930.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

114 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
 58 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
 51 Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 13 Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
 11 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
 10 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
  9 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
  5 Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
  5 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
  3 Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
  5 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
  3 Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
  2 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
  1 Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
  1 Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de>