Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest

Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
 "This consists of:

   - Several fixes from Masami Hiramatsu to improve coverage for lib and
     sysctl tests.

   - Clean up to vdso test and a new test for getcpu() from Mark Brown.

   - Add new gen_tar selftests Makefile target generate selftest package
     running "make gen_tar" in selftests directory from Veronika
     Kabatova.

   - Other miscellaneous fixes to timens, exec, tpm2 tests"

* tag 'linux-kselftest-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  selftests/sysctl: Make sysctl test driver as a module
  selftests/sysctl: Fix to load test_sysctl module
  lib: Make test_sysctl initialized as module
  lib: Make prime number generator independently selectable
  selftests/ftrace: Return unsupported if no error_log file
  selftests/ftrace: Use printf for backslash included command
  selftests/timens: handle a case when alarm clocks are not supported
  Kernel selftests: Add check if TPM devices are supported
  selftests: vdso: Add a selftest for vDSO getcpu()
  selftests: vdso: Use a header file to prototype parse_vdso API
  selftests: vdso: Rename vdso_test to vdso_test_gettimeofday
  selftests/exec: Verify execve of non-regular files fail
  selftests: introduce gen_tar Makefile target

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/tracing-error-log.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/tracing-error-log.tc
index 021c03fd885d..23465823532b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/tracing-error-log.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/tracing-error-log.tc
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ if [ ! -f set_event ]; then
     exit_unsupported
 fi
 
+[ -f error_log ] || exit_unsupported
+
 ftrace_errlog_check 'event filter parse error' '((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig ^== 17) && comm != bash' 'events/signal/signal_generate/filter'
 
 exit 0
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions
index 61a3c7e2634d..697c77ef2e2b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions
@@ -119,12 +119,14 @@ yield() {
     ping $LOCALHOST -c 1 || sleep .001 || usleep 1 || sleep 1
 }
 
+# Since probe event command may include backslash, explicitly use printf "%s"
+# to NOT interpret it.
 ftrace_errlog_check() { # err-prefix command-with-error-pos-by-^ command-file
-    pos=$(echo -n "${2%^*}" | wc -c) # error position
-    command=$(echo "$2" | tr -d ^)
+    pos=$(printf "%s" "${2%^*}" | wc -c) # error position
+    command=$(printf "%s" "$2" | tr -d ^)
     echo "Test command: $command"
     echo > error_log
-    (! echo "$command" >> "$3" ) 2> /dev/null
+    (! printf "%s" "$command" >> "$3" ) 2> /dev/null
     grep "$1: error:" -A 3 error_log
     N=$(tail -n 1 error_log | wc -c)
     # "  Command: " and "^\n" => 13
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc
index ef1e9bafb098..eb0f4ab4e070 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ esac
 if grep -q "Create/append/" README && grep -q "imm-value" README; then
 echo 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork' > kprobe_events
 check_error '^r:kprobes/testevent do_exit'	# DIFF_PROBE_TYPE
-echo 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork abcd=\1' > kprobe_events
+
+# Explicitly use printf "%s" to not interpret \1
+printf "%s" 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork abcd=\1' > kprobe_events
 check_error 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork ^bcd=\1'	# DIFF_ARG_TYPE
 check_error 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork ^abcd=\1:u8'	# DIFF_ARG_TYPE
 check_error 'p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork ^abcd=\"foo"'	# DIFF_ARG_TYPE