linux/tools/testing
Matthieu Baerts b1a6a38ab8 selftests: mptcp: lib: skip if not below kernel version
Selftests are supposed to run on any kernels, including the old ones not
supporting all MPTCP features.

A new function is now available to easily detect if a feature is
missing by looking at the kernel version. That's clearly not ideal and
this kind of check should be avoided as soon as possible. But sometimes,
there are no external sign that a "feature" is available or not:
internal behaviours can change without modifying the uAPI and these
selftests are verifying the internal behaviours. Sometimes, the only
(easy) way to verify if the feature is present is to run the test but
then the validation cannot determine if there is a failure with the
feature or if the feature is missing. Then it looks better to check the
kernel version instead of having tests that can never fail. In any case,
we need a solution not to have a whole selftest being marked as failed
just because one sub-test has failed.

Note that this env var car be set to 1 not to do such check and run the
linked sub-test: SELFTESTS_MPTCP_LIB_NO_KVERSION_CHECK.

This new helper is going to be used in the following commits. In order
to ease the backport of such future patches, it would be good if this
patch is backported up to the introduction of MPTCP selftests, hence the
Fixes tag below: this type of check was supposed to be done from the
beginning.

Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/368
Fixes: 048d19d444 ("mptcp: add basic kselftest for mptcp")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-06-12 16:55:42 -07:00
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crypto/chacha20-s390
cxl cxl: Move cxl_await_media_ready() to before capacity info retrieval 2023-05-18 16:43:45 -07:00
fault-injection
ktest ktest: Restore stty setting at first in dodie 2023-02-20 11:52:27 -05:00
kunit kunit: tool: Add support for SH under QEMU 2023-04-05 12:51:16 -06:00
memblock mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
nvdimm Driver core changes for 6.4-rc1 2023-04-27 11:53:57 -07:00
radix-tree maple_tree: add a test case to check maple_alloc 2023-04-18 16:29:56 -07:00
scatterlist
selftests selftests: mptcp: lib: skip if not below kernel version 2023-06-12 16:55:42 -07:00
vsock vsock/test: update expected return values 2023-04-04 12:46:24 +02:00