Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/92] 4.4.133-stable review

[Shuah Khan]

On 05/24/2018 03:34 PM, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On 24 May 2018 at 23:47, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:06:52PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:37:37AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.133 release.
>>>> There are 92 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>>> let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Responses should be made by Sat May 26 09:31:28 UTC 2018.
>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
>>> No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.
>>>
>>> Summary
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> kernel: 4.4.133-rc1
>>> git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
>>> git branch: linux-4.4.y
>>> git commit: 915a3d7cdea9daa9e9fb6b855f10c1312e6910c4
>>> git describe: v4.4.132-93-g915a3d7cdea9
>>> Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.4-oe/build/v4.4.132-93-g915a3d7cdea9
>>>
>>>
>>> No regressions (compared to build v4.4.132-71-g180635995c36)
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't this compare against v4.4.132 ?
>>
>> I looked into kselftest/rtnetlink.sh test results.
>> The test history is a bit confusing.
>>
>> - v4.4.131-57-ge33795f7a573 and earlier passed
>> - v4.4.132 failed
>> - v4.4.132-30-ga102378c6551 passed
>> ...
>> - v4.4.132-70-gaa7ab28e9c5e passed
>> - v4.4.132-71-g180635995c36 and later failed
>>
>> Does that mean that this specific test is unreliable ?
> 
> kselftest rtnetlink.sh test case failure is not a regression on 4.16,
> 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4 builds.
> Because it used to skip due to missing tc tool.
> 
> Now the ''tc' tool added to Open Embedded build and test running and
> reported failed.
> This is not a regression in the kernel.
> It is a change in the user space.
> 
> Old output
> ============
> SKIP: Could not run test without the tc tool
> selftests: rtnetlink.sh [PASS]
> https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/225015#L2255
> 
> 
> New output
> =============
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
> Cannot find device \"test-dummy0\"
> FAIL: cannot add dummy interface
> selftests: rtnetlink.sh [FAIL]
> https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/226352#L3375
> 
> Ref bug link:
> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3834
> 
> - Naresh
> 

Which kselftest versdion do you run? Is this from linux-next?

thanks,
-- Shuah