Re: [PATCH 2/2] kselftest: Support old perl versions

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sat Dec 07 2019 - 13:48:06 EST


On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 12:42:21PM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On an old perl such as v5.10.1, `kselftest/prefix.pl` gives below error
> message:
>
> Can't locate object method "autoflush" via package "IO::Handle" at kselftest/prefix.pl line 10.
>
> This commit fixes the error by explicitly specifying the use of the
> `IO::Handle` package.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>

Good catch!

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
> index ec7e48118183..31f7c2a0a8bd 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/prefix.pl
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> # Prefix all lines with "# ", unbuffered. Command being piped in may need
> # to have unbuffering forced with "stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 $cmd".
> use strict;
> +use IO::Handle;
>
> binmode STDIN;
> binmode STDOUT;
> --
> 2.17.1
>

--
Kees Cook