Re: [PATCH 6/8] test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point

From: Oliver Sang
Date: Sat Jun 10 2023 - 09:58:26 EST


hi Joel Granados,

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:27:17AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 10:41:05PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > kernel test robot noticed "sysctl_could_not_get_directory" on:
> >
> > commit: 1997935e918fa4c07b70be47ef8f37622df427bd ("[PATCH 6/8] test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point")
[...]
> > [ 15.271017][ T1] initcall io_uring_init+0x0/0x40 returned 0 after 87 usecs
> > [ 15.272122][ T1] calling test_firmware_init+0x0/0x190 @ 1
> > [ 15.274422][ T1] test_firmware: interface ready
> > [ 15.275240][ T1] initcall test_firmware_init+0x0/0x190 returned 0 after 2200 usecs
> > [ 15.276480][ T1] calling test_sysctl_init+0x0/0x630 @ 1
> > [ 15.277687][ T1] sysctl could not get directory: /debug/test_sysctl/mnt/mnt_error -30
>
> This is precisely what I'm trying to test. I'm trying to create a
> directory on top of a permanently empty directory and expecting the
> failure and checking to see that the mnt_error directory was not
> created.

got it, thanks for information! now we noticed this commit is already in
linux-next/master, we ignored the similar alert from test results.

>
> @mcgrof: Can we just ignore this 0-day report as a false positive?
>
> Best
>
>