linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools/testing/selftests: fix gup

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Message-ID: <09292ea1-e722-4897-b42a-dda517ddd02e@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:37:50 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/testing/selftests: fix gup_longterm for unknown fs

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 05:29:51PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 09:28:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue,  6 Jan 2026 15:45:47 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > > Commit 66bce7afbaca ("selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in
> > > gup_longterm") introduced a small bug causing unknown filesystems to always
> > > result in a test failure.
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > > Fixes: 66bce7afbaca ("selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm")
>
> > -stable users might want this?
>
> I think so.

Yeh I did wonder if we'd want that, and I think you confirmed Mark that people
do potentially run tests on stable kernels? Or I can't remember :)

Anyway if so then sure. I think this should be an easy automagic-backport
anyway!

Cheers, Lorenzo