[PATCH v10 8/9] kselftest: save-and-restore errno to allow for %m formatting

Aleksa Sarai cyphar at cyphar.com
Sat Jul 20 10:09:30 AEST 2019


On 2019-07-19, shuah <shuah at kernel.org> wrote:
> On 7/19/19 10:42 AM, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > Previously, using "%m" in a ksft_* format string can result in strange
> > output because the errno value wasn't saved before calling other libc
> > functions. The solution is to simply save and restore the errno before
> > we format the user-supplied format string.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar at cyphar.com>
> [...]
> Hi Aleksa,
> 
> Can you send this patch separate from the patch series. I will apply
> this as bug fix to 5.3-rc2 or rc3.
> 
> This isn't part of this series anyway and I would like to get this in
> right away.

Done, and I'll drop it in v11 after the rest gets reviewed.

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>
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