Re: [PATCH v2] selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): Allow running non-executable files

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 27 2023 - 04:30:03 EST


On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 12:46:37AM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hi Greg and Sasha,
>
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:45:34 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj38.park@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When running a test program, 'run_one()' checks if the program has the
> > execution permission and fails if it doesn't. However, it's easy to
> > mistakenly missing the permission, as some common tools like 'diff'
> > don't support the permission change well[1]. Compared to that, making
> > mistakes in the test program's path would only rare, as those are
> > explicitly listed in 'TEST_PROGS'. Therefore, it might make more sense
> > to resolve the situation on our own and run the program.
> >
> > For the reason, this commit makes the test program runner function to
> > still print the warning message but try parsing the interpreter of the
> > program and explicitly run it with the interpreter, in the case.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/YRJisBs9AunccCD4@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch has merged into the mainline by the commit 303f8e2d0200
> ("selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files").
> However, this patch has not added to v5.15.y, while there are some selftests
> having no execution permission, including that for DAMON. As a result, the
> selftests always fail unless this patch is manually applied. Could you please
> add this patch to v5.15.y? I confirmed this patch can cleanly cherry-picked on
> the latest v5.15.y.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h