[ANNOUNCE] The Linux Test Project has been released for SEPTEMBER 2019

[Cyril Hrubis]

Good news everyone,

the Linux Test Project test suite stable release for *September 2019* has been
released.

Since the last release 267 patches by 41 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES
===============

* New tests
  - Basic eBPF map and program load tests
  - Netlink uevent socket tests
  - Basic ioprio() tests
  - Basic sendmmsg() test
  - mbind() tests
  - Memory protection (pkey) tests
  - prctl() with PR_CAP_AMBIENT
  - prctl() with PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS
  - prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_NAME
  - prctl() with PR_{SET,GET}_SECCOMP
  - futext_cmp_requeue() tests
  - fanotify FAN_REPORT_FID tests
  - fanotify overlayfs tests
  - pidfd_send_signal() tests
  - IMA overlay tests
  - acct() tests
  - preadv2() RWF_NOWAIT tests

* New tests variants for
  - clock_getres()

* New regression tests
  - bpf_prog02: regression test for 3612af783cf52c (bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers)
  - timer_create() aka CVE-2017-18344
  - alsa timer race aka CVE-2017-1000380
  - accept02 aka CVE-2017-8890
  - setsockopt04 aka CVE-2016-9793
  - move_pages12: regression tests for:
    e66f17ff7177 (mm/hugetlb: take page table lock in follow_huge_pmd())
    c9d398fa2378 (mm, hugetlb: use pte_present() instead of pmd_present() in follow_huge_pmd())
    4643d67e8cb0 (hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS)
  - crypto_user02: regression test for 21d4120ec6f5 ("crypto: user - prevent operating on larval algorithms")
  - sysctl02: regression test for 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max")

* Increased coverage
  - copy_file_range()
     - tests for cross device copy
     - tests for invalid files (swapfile, pipe, ...)
  - intel PT tests
  - sync_file_range()
     - added partial range sync

* Added syscall tables for MIPS

* Guarded buffers, which are pages followed by a PROT_NONE and preceeded by a
  canary were introduced and 8 tests were changed to make use of the new
  feature. Also newly implemented tests are using the same buffers as well.

* Additional 36 tests were converted to the new test library


NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS
================================
brought to you by Peter Vorel

* New net features:
  - introduce TST_GET_UNUSED_PORT() macro into C API

* Rewritten to new API:
  - tst_get_unused_port
  - bind01
  - setdomainname
  - sethostname


+ The usuall amount of fixes and cleanups.

DOWNLOAD AND LINKS
==================

The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux
and can be downloaded at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/releases/tag/20190930

The project pages as well as GIT repository are hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
http://linux-test-project.github.io/

If you ever wondered how to write a LTP testcase, don't miss our developer
documentation at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/C-Test-Case-Tutorial
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/BuildSystem

Patches, new tests, bugs, comments or questions should go to to our mailing
list at ltp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


CREDITS
=======

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20190517..

    68  Petr Vorel <pvorel@xxxxxxx>
    45  Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx>
    27  Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    19  Christian Amann <camann@xxxxxxxx>
    17  Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
     9  Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@xxxxxxxx>
     8  Li Wang <liwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
     7  Murphy Zhou <xzhou@xxxxxxxxxx>
     6  Jinhui huang <huangjh.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     5  Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
     5  Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     5  Sandeep Patil <sspatil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
     5  Yixin Zhang <yixin.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
     4  Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
     4  Xiao Yang <ice_yangxiao@xxxxxxx>
     3  He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     3  Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     2  Caspar Zhang <caspar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     2  Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
     2  Steve Muckle <smuckle@xxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Ammy Yi <ammy.yi@xxxxxxxxx>
     1  Hongzhi.Song <hongzhi.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx>
     1  Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Martin Doucha <martin.doucha@xxxxxxxx>
     1  Mathias Fiedler <mathias.fiedler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Michael Moese <mmoese@xxxxxxx>
     1  Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
     1  Petr Cervinka <pcervinka@xxxxxxxx>
     1  Ping Fang <pifang@xxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Piotr Gawel <piotr.krzysztof.gawel@xxxxxxxxx>
     1  Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
     1  Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Tobias Jordan <knilch-ltp@xxxxxxx>
     1  Wu,Haiqiang <frequentemail@xxxxxxx>
     1  Yann Sionneau <ysionneau@xxxxxxxxx>
     1  Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     1  Yu,Siliang <siliangx.yu@xxxxxxxxx>


And also thanks to patch reviewers:

git log 20190517.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r

     94 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx>
     42 Li Wang <liwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
     16 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
     13 Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
     11 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@xxxxxxx>
      7 Petr Vorel <pvorel@xxxxxxx>
      6 Xiao Yang <ice_yangxiao@xxxxxxx>
      6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad <cfamullaconrad@xxxxxxx>
      5 Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      4 Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      4 Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
      3 Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
      2 Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
      2 Ignaz Forster <iforster@xxxxxxx>
      1 Sandeep Patil <sspatil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
      1 Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@xxxxxxxx>
      1 Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@xxxxxxxxx>
      1 Christian Amann <camann@xxxxxxxx>

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@xxxxxxx