Re: [PATCH] selftests/pidfd: skip setns tests without namespace ioctls

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:00:42 +0800, linfordWu wrote:
> Kernels without the pidfd namespace ioctls return ENOTTY. The
> current_nsset fixture expects only EOPNOTSUPP and reports a failure for
> every namespace before running the tests.
> 
> Skip the fixture when ENOTTY is returned so unsupported kernels report
> skipped tests instead of failures.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-7.5.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.5.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.5.misc

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      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/5ac2bfaaafaa