linuxolator: amd64 Linux Test Project failures

[Divacky Roman]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:11:00AM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> I'm seeing similar failures on these functions when running the
> ltp-20061222 tests on amd64:
> 
> linux_[access, chdir, chmod, chown, chroot, creat, lchown, link,
> lstat, mkdir, mkdirat, mknod, rename, rmdir, stat, statfs, symlink,
> truncate, unlink]
> 
> The problem is that the ltp tests are passing in a negative value for
> the path into the functions, and is expection a return value of
> EFAULT.  Instead they are returning with (i.e access03):
> 
> access((char *)-1,R_OK) failed with errno 2 : No such file or
> directory but expected 14 (EFAULT)
> 
> I added a printf before the LCONVPATHEXIST macro:
> 
>        printf(ARGS(access, "Checking if path [%p/%p] exists"), (char
> *) -1, &args->path);
>        LCONVPATHEXIST(td, args->path, &path);
> 
> and it resulted in the following output:
> 
> Dec 29 03:32:32 hp010 kernel: linux(1259): access(Checking if path
> [0xffffffffffffffff/0xffffffffa31f2be0] exists)

forget my last mail.. the flu strikes badly..
anyway - remove the & and post the results I think I know what might
cause the bug....

thnx

roman