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Patch "selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:03:10 -0700
Subject: selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 327d53d005ca47b10eae940616ed11c569f75a9b upstream.

Fix a logic error that caused the test to exit with 0 even if test cases failed.

---
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c +1 -1
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int main(void)
 	clearhandler(SIGSEGV);
 
 	/* Make sure nothing explodes if we fork. */
-	if (fork() > 0)
+	if (fork() == 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	return (nerrs == 0 ? 0 : 1);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-the-str-and-sldt-instructions.patch queue-4.4/x86-vm86-32-fix-popf-emulation.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-add-tests-for-user-mode-instruction-prevention.patch queue-4.4/perf-tools-make-perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events-scale.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-use-pxd_large.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-add-test-cases-for-popf.patch queue-4.4/selftests-x86-entry_from_vm86-exit-with-1-if-we-fail.patch