linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] test_kmod: make selftest executable

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Message-Id: <20170802164250.6c34cc3128bcd715fe583de3@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2017 16:42:50 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     shuah@...nel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        dcb314@...mail.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] test_kmod: make selftest executable

On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:55:50 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed,  2 Aug 2017 14:14:46 -0700 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> We had just forgotten to do this.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 39258f448d71 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
> >> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> >> ---
> >>  tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh | 0
> >>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>  mode change 100644 => 100755 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> >> old mode 100644
> >> new mode 100755
> >
> > This is pretty fragile - I'm not sure that patch/diff are capable of
> > communicating a bare chmod.  If someone does a "patch -p1 < patch-4.14"
> > or whatever, this change is likely to get lost.
> 
> True if using regular diff, if using git, it will catch it though.

Yeah.  I don't think this change will make it through my
maze-of-scripts.  Perhaps Shuah can pick it up.

Also...

# find tools/testing/selftests -name "*.sh" -a ! -executable
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcuperf/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/lock/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/ver_functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
tools/testing/selftests/locking/ww_mutex.sh
tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh