Re: [LTP] [fs] ce436509a8: ltp.openat203.fail

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2020-04-27, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
> > commit: ce436509a8e109330c56bb4d8ec87d258788f5f4 ("[PATCH v4 2/3] fs: openat2: Extend open_how to allow userspace-selected fds")
> > url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Josh-Triplett/Support-userspace-selected-fds/20200414-102939
> > base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git next
> 
> This commit adds fd parameter to the how structure where LTP test was
> previously passing garbage, which obviously causes the difference in
> errno.
> 
> This could be safely ignored for now, if the patch gets merged the test
> needs to be updated.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to switch the test to figure out the ksize of
the struct, so that you only add bad padding after that. But then again,
this would be a bit ugly -- having CHECK_FIELDS would make this simpler.

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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