Some systems might disable unloading a livepatch and when running tests on them they fail like the following:
$ ./run_kselftest.sh -c livepatch TAP version 13 1..8 # selftests: livepatch: test-livepatch.sh # TEST: basic function patching ... not ok # # --- expected # +++ result # @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': starting # livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': completing patching transition # livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': patching complete # % echo 0 > /sys/kernel/livepatch/test_klp_livepatch/enabled # +livepatch: attempt to disable live patch test_klp_livepatch, setting NO_SUPPORT taint flag # livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': initializing unpatching transition # livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': starting unpatching transition # livepatch: 'test_klp_livepatch': completing unpatching transition # # ERROR: livepatch kselftest(s) failed
Cc: Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière rbm@suse.com --- tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh index 46991a029f7c64ace3945727b3540521ffe2e529..13fc289962cdd77c9fc4eaf1ad336775d6db710d 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh @@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ function check_result { result=$(dmesg | awk -v last_dmesg="$LAST_DMESG" 'p; $0 == last_dmesg { p=1 }' | \ grep -e 'livepatch:' -e 'test_klp' | \ grep -v '(tainting|taints) kernel' | \ + grep -v 'setting NO_SUPPORT taint flag' | \ sed 's/^[[ 0-9.]*] //' | \ sed 's/^[[ ]*[CT][0-9]*] //')
--- base-commit: 8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585 change-id: 20250819-selftests-lp_taint_flag-c96f5b9b2ed9
Best regards,
On Tue Aug 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM -03, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
Some systems might disable unloading a livepatch and when running tests on them they fail like the following:
oops, sorry..
Please ignore this patch, this should be handled downstream along with https://github.com/openSUSE/kernel-source/blob/SL-16.0/patches.suse/livepatc... ...
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