[LTP] [PATCH v4] syscalls/statx04: use stx_attributes_mask before test

[Richard Palethorpe]

Hello,

Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>> Note that even if you move setting the flags to the top. This will still
>> result in all unset flags becoming TCONF instead of TFAIL.
>> 
>> IMO statx is broken on older kernels except for ext4. It can be fixed by
>> backporting patches. One of the main use cases for LTP is to find
>> missing backports.
>
> That was my point as well.
>
> I guess that the last time I've proposed to create a separate test that
> just tests that these flags are set as expected for a all filesystems
> and that test would have the patches that fixed that as a tags set. That
> would make it clearer what is wrong and what should be backported.
>
> Once we have that test implemented we can change this test as this patch
> does.

Or perhaps we could pass a flag to this test to ignore kernel versions
which are known not to work?

-- 
Thank you,
Richard.