Re: [PATCH 6.15 000/509] 6.15.11-rc2 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 at 16:49, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 01:14:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:57:57AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
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> > > # first bad commit: [3b03bb96f7485981aa3c59b26b4d3a1c700ba9f3] eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
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> > I thought the LTP test was going to be fixed, what happened to that?
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> I have no recollection of being looped into that discussion so this is
> still exactly the same LTP image as I was running before.  Do you have
> any references, is this something that's in a released LTP?

The following patch merged into LTP master and it will be available from
the next LTP release.

syscalls/epoll_ctl04: add ELOOP to expected errnos

Kernel commit f2e467a48287 ("eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion")
added an extra checks for determining the maximum depth of an upwards
walk, which starting with 6.17-rc kernels now hits ELOOP before EINVAL.

Add ELOOP to list of expected errnos.

Link:  - https://lore.kernel.org/ltp/39ee7abdee12e22074b40d46775d69d37725b932.1754386027.git.jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx/
- https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/commit/e84f0689cf7a8a77478a0e70aa62560f66c3bceb