NOTABLE CHANGES

• New tests

  • kvm_pagefault01: aka CVE-2021-38198
  • fcntl39: test for DN_RENAME (dnotify)
  • io_control01: first cgroup IO controller test
  • keyctl09: test encrypted keys with provided decrypted data
  • memcontrol03, memcontrol04: tests that cgroup memory is partitioned correctly under pressure
  • setsockopt09: regression test for use-after-free in prb_retire_rx_blk_timer_expired()
  • setsockopt09: regression test for double free of rx_owner_map aka CVE-2021-22600
  • pty07: regression test for use-after-free in vt_ioctl()
  • pty06: regression test for VT_DISALLOCATE freeing in-use virtual console
  • pidfd_getfd01 basic functional test
  • pidfd_getfd02 basic error test
  • pidfd_open04 test with PIDFD_NONBLOCK flag
  • futex_waitv01 error tests
  • futex_waitv02 basic functional test with private memory
  • futex_waitv03 basic functional test with shared memory
  • inotify11: test opening files after receiving IN_DELETE
    regression test for a37d9a17f099 (fsnotify: invalidate dcache before IN_DELETE event)
  • statx09 test for STATX_ATTR_VERITY
  • wqueue09 tests WATCH_META_LOSS_NOTIFICATION event
  • wqueue08 tests WATCH_META_REMOVAL_NOTIFICATION event
  • wqueue07 tests NOTIFY_KEY_SETATTR event
  • wqueue06 tests NOTIFY_KEY_CLEARED event
  • wqueue05 tests NOTIFY_KEY_INVALIDATED event
  • wqueue04 tests NOTIFY_KEY_LINKED event
  • wqueue03 tests NOTIFY_KEY_REVOKED event
  • wqueue02 tests NOTIFY_KEY_UNLINKED event
  • wqueue01 tests NOTIFY_KEY_UPDATED event

• Increased coverage

  • fanotify14, fanotify16: Add tests for FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID and FAN_RENAME
  • futex_waitv01: Add test verifies EINVAL for invalid nr_futexes
  • getcontext01: Test rewritten so that it actually jumps back
  • fstat02: Validate st_nlink as well
  • sched_get_priority_max01, sched_get_priority_min01: Add missing policies

• KVM library was written for LTP

  • a simple library that can spin up a VM and execute payload
  • see also https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/KVM-Test-API

• The concept of test runtime was introduced

  • for details see https://people.kernel.org/metan/test-timeout-and-runtime

• Removed tests

  • syslog tests as these were testing mostly userspace syslog daemon
    and were broken for most of the syslog daemon implementations

• The test library was fixed to terminate all leftover processes in the case
  that the main test process dies or exits

• New sparse check for {} terminator for struct arrays in tst_test has been
  implemented

• Shell library improvements

  • added support for $TST_FORMAT_DEVICE (.format_device in C API)
  • preparations for shell API get support for testing on all filesystems (.all_filesystems in C API)
  • getopts cleanup and changes how is the library sources,
    which resulted in much simpler library code

• Userns tests were rewritten into the new test API

• Mountns tests were rewritten into the new test API

• 33 tests were rewritten to the new library

• The usual amount of fixes and cleanups

WHAT IS IN THE QUEUE

In-flight patches include:

• CGroup shell test rewrite that should fix many problems

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

• Several fixes (e.g. important nfs_lib: Fix fsid randomisation)

• Ongoing discussion where should be SCTP testsuite home

DOWNLOAD AND LINKS

The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux
and can be downloaded at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/releases/tag/20220527

The project pages as well as GIT repository are hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
http://linux-test-project.github.io/

If you ever wondered how to write a LTP testcase, don't miss our developer
documentation at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-API

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Network-API

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Shell-Test-API

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Case-Tutorial

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/BuildSystem
Patches, new tests, bugs, comments or questions should go to to our mailing
list at ltp@lists.linux.it.

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20220121..

72  Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
51  Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
42  Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.de>
22  Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
21  Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
17  Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
15  Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
10  Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
10  Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>
 7  Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
 6  Dai Shili <daisl.fnst@fujitsu.com>
 6  Bogdan Lezhepekov <blezhepekov@suse.de>
 4  tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com>
 2  Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
 2  Kushal Chand <kushalkataria5@gmail.com>
 2  xiaoshoukui <xiaoshoukui@ruijie.com.cn>
 1  Alexander Ivanov <alexander.ivanov@virtuozzo.com>
 1  Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
 1  Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
 1  Edward Liaw via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
 1  Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
 1  Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
 1  Wang Kunfeng via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
 1  Yael Tzur via ltp <ltp@lists.linux.it>
 1  ihsinme <ihsinme@gmail.com>

And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20220121.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

148 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
105 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
 73 Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
 21 Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
 17 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
 10 Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
  6 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
  1 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
  1 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
  1 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
  1 Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.de>
  1 Alexey Kodanev <aleksei.kodanev@bell-sw.com>