Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] kselftests: livepatch: Adapt tests to be executed on 4.12 kernels

[Miroslav Benes]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:

> On Wed, 2026-04-15 at 14:01 +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Apr 2026, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> > 
> > > A new version of the patchset, with fewer patches now. Please take
> > > a look!
> > > 
> > > Original cover-letter:
> > > These patches don't really change how the patches are run, just
> > > skip
> > > some tests on kernels that don't support a feature (like kprobe and
> > > livepatched living together) or when a livepatch sysfs attribute is
> > > missing.
> > > 
> > > The last patch slightly adjusts check_result function to skip dmesg
> > > messages on SLE kernels when a livepatch is removed.
> > > 
> > > These patches are based on printk/for-next branch.
> > > 
> > > Please review! Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Besides my comment for 1/6 and what Sashiko discovered, it looks good
> > to 
> > me.
> > 
> > However, please also take a look at brand new 
> > test_modules/test_klp_mod_target.c. It does not build on old kernels
> > since 
> > they lack proc_create_single(). I think it should be covered in this
> > patch 
> > set too.
> 
> I saw that yesterday as well, but I wanted to merge this series first.
> I have plans to create a way to unregister the livepatches if something
> fails, so we can continue to run the other tests. I was planning to fix
> the test_klp_mod_target.c in the same patchset.

Fair enough.

Miroslav