Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: Drop invalid top-level local in test_ownership

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 20:36:27 EST



Shuah,

Care to take this through your tree. Probably could even add:

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8b55572e51805 ("tracing/selftests: Add tracefs mount options test")

As well as:

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:26:13 +0800
CaoRuichuang <create0818@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@xxxxxxx>
>
> test_ownership.tc is sourced by ftracetest under /bin/sh.
>
> The script currently declares mount_point with local at file scope,
> which makes /bin/sh abort with "local: not in a function" before the
> test can reach the eventfs ownership checks.
>
> Replace the top-level local declaration with a normal shell variable so
> kernels that support the gid= tracefs mount option can run the test at
> all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> index e71cc3ad0..6d00d3c0f 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/test_ownership.tc
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> original_group=`stat -c "%g" .`
> original_owner=`stat -c "%u" .`
>
> -local mount_point=$(get_mount_point)
> +mount_point=$(get_mount_point)
>
> mount_options=$(get_mnt_options "$mount_point")
>