linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 27/10/2021 à 16:18, Paul Moore a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 7:41 AM Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:
>> Le 27/10/2021 à 13:29, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>>> Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> writes:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:55 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>>>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> writes:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today's linux-next merge of the audit tree got conflicts in:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     arch/powerpc/kernel/audit.c
>>>>>>     arch/powerpc/kernel/compat_audit.c
>>>>>>
>>>>>> between commit:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     566af8cda399 ("powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from the powerpc tree and commits:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     42f355ef59a2 ("audit: replace magic audit syscall class numbers with macros")
>>>>>>     1c30e3af8a79 ("audit: add support for the openat2 syscall")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from the audit tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess this is OK, unless the audit folks disagree. I could revert the
>>>>> powerpc commit and try it again later.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I don't hear anything I'll leave it as-is.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>
>>>> Last I recall from the powerpc/audit thread there were still some
>>>> issues with audit working properly in your testing, has that been
>>>> resolved?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> There's one test failure both before and after the conversion to use the
>>> generic code.
>>>
>>>> If nothing else, -rc7 seems a bit late for this to hit -next for me to
>>>> feel comfortable about this.
>>>
>>> OK. I'll revert the patch in my tree.
>>
>> But it's been in the pipe since end of August and no one reported any
>> issue other issue than the pre-existing one, so what's the new issue
>> that prevents us to merge it two monthes later, and how do we walk
>> forward then ?
> 
> We work to resolve the test failure, it's that simple.  I haven't seen
> the failure so I haven't been much help to do any sort of root cause
> digging on the problem, it would be helpful if those who are seeing
> the problem could dig into the failure and report back on what they
> find.  That is what has been missing and why I never ACK'd or merged
> the powerpc audit code.
> 

Hello Paul,

I've been trying to setup your test suite on my powerpc board but it's 
based on Perl and on a lot of optional Perl packages. I was able to add 
them one by one until some of them require some .so libraries 
(Pathtools-Cwd), and it seems nothing is made to allow cross building 
those libraries.

Do you have another test suite based on C and not perl ?

If not, what can I do, do you know how I can cross compile those Perl 
packages for PPC32 ?

Thanks
Christophe