Re: [PATCH 1/5] test_kmod: make selftest executable

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:55:50 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed,  2 Aug 2017 14:14:46 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> We had just forgotten to do this.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 39258f448d71 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
> >> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh | 0
> >>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>  mode change 100644 => 100755 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> >> old mode 100644
> >> new mode 100755
> >
> > This is pretty fragile - I'm not sure that patch/diff are capable of
> > communicating a bare chmod.  If someone does a "patch -p1 < patch-4.14"
> > or whatever, this change is likely to get lost.
> 
> True if using regular diff, if using git, it will catch it though.

Yeah.  I don't think this change will make it through my
maze-of-scripts.  Perhaps Shuah can pick it up.

Also...

# find tools/testing/selftests -name "*.sh" -a ! -executable
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcuperf/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/locking/ww_mutex.sh
tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh