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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.14 00/74] 4.14.10-stable review
On 31 December 2017 at 10:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> I re-tested ldt_gdt_64 again locally and in testing LAB. The test
>> failed again so I think this is a regression. I did the bisection
>> which resulted in
>>
>> 2c8e9099aecec2baaac8d34c7b823493f2d0eeed is the first bad commit
>> commit 2c8e9099aecec2baaac8d34c7b823493f2d0eeed
>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Date: Thu Dec 14 12:27:31 2017 +0100
>>
>> x86/ldt: Prevent LDT inheritance on exec
>>
>> commit a4828f81037f491b2cc986595e3a969a6eeb2fb5 upstream.
>>
>> Reverting this commit makes he ldt_gdt_64 pass again. However it's
>> worth to mention that the test uses a pre-build version of kselftest
>> from 4.14 (sources here:
>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.14.tar.xz). The
>> offending commit also changed tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c. I
>> re-tested original build using this version of kselftests and the
>> ldt_gdt_64 passes (as expected). This makes me thinking whether using
>> the 'old' version of kselftests is a good idea.
>
> You should use the version with the fix, for the obvious reason as
> documented in the selftest change :)

I'll move all our stable builds to use kselftests from 4.14.10.

milosz

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