From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Hrubis Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:55:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] ltp: update add_key tests for nonempty NULL payload fix Message-Id: <20170606114416.GA5208@rei> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: To: keyrings@vger.kernel.org Hi! > (The reason I'm not simply changing the add_key02 test is that I don't want it > to appear as a regression on old kernels. I'm not sure exactly how this kind of > thing is typically handled in LTP, though.) What exactly do you mean by a regression here? The fact that it may crash older kernels? That is pretty much fine, when test fails/kernel crashes manual intervention is required and one of the first things you do is git log for the test. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Hrubis Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:55:52 +0200 Subject: [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] ltp: update add_key tests for nonempty NULL payload fix In-Reply-To: <20170605174811.95267-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> References: <20170605174811.95267-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20170606114416.GA5208@rei> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi! > (The reason I'm not simply changing the add_key02 test is that I don't want it > to appear as a regression on old kernels. I'm not sure exactly how this kind of > thing is typically handled in LTP, though.) What exactly do you mean by a regression here? The fact that it may crash older kernels? That is pretty much fine, when test fails/kernel crashes manual intervention is required and one of the first things you do is git log for the test. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz