Re: [PATCH 2/2] kselftest: Support old perl versions

From: shuah
Date: Wed Dec 11 2019 - 12:20:29 EST


On 12/7/19 11:47 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 12:42:21PM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>

On an old perl such as v5.10.1, `kselftest/prefix.pl` gives below error
message:

Can't locate object method "autoflush" via package "IO::Handle" at kselftest/prefix.pl line 10.

This commit fixes the error by explicitly specifying the use of the
`IO::Handle` package.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>

Good catch!

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

---
tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
index ec7e48118183..31f7c2a0a8bd 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
# Prefix all lines with "# ", unbuffered. Command being piped in may need
# to have unbuffering forced with "stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 $cmd".
use strict;
+use IO::Handle;
binmode STDIN;
binmode STDOUT;
--
2.17.1



Applying to fixes for next 5.5-rc

thanks,
-- Shuah