[ovs-dev] [PATCH] testsuite: work around patch bug

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com> wrote:
> Due to a CVE bug, the patch was modified to not allow following
> symlinks out of the workdir.  However, this causes a bug when
> there is a regular file out of the workdir which breaks the current
> testsuite build.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>   ./boot.sh
>   mkdir _gcc && cd _gcc
>   ../configure
>   make
>   [...]
>   /bin/sh /home/fleitner/ovs/testsuite/build-aux/missing autom4te
>   --language=autotest -I '..' -o ../tests/testsuite.tmp
>   ../tests/testsuite.at
>   patch -p0 ../tests/testsuite.tmp ../tests/testsuite.patch
>   Invalid file name ../tests/testsuite.tmp -- skipping patch
>   Makefile:5155: recipe for target '../tests/testsuite' failed
>   make[2]: *** [../tests/testsuite] Error 1
>   make[2]: Leaving directory
>   '/home/fleitner/NetworkingServices/openvswitch/repo/testsuite/_gcc'
>   Makefile:4087: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
>   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Since it's just a temporary file, this patch changes to use the
> workdir as the place to put the file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
I re-read the commit message again and I understand it now.
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>