[ANNOUNCE] fstests: for-next branch updated to v2026.08.17

Zorro Lang <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:27:18 +0800
Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.fstests
Message-ID	<[email protected]>>
Hi all,

The for-next branch of the xfstests repository at:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git

has just been updated and tagged as v2026.08.17 release.

Release Notes:
1. There're 7 new test cases in this release, include btrfs/353, exfat/001,
   generic/799, generic/800, generic/801, xfs/539 and xfs/671.
2. Fix idmapped mount tests where O_TMPFILE support was incorrectly probed.
3. For fix an issue, generic/347 introduces an additional requirement for
   fallocate support.
4. Allow fserror tests to run on the f2fs filesystem.
5. Add the first exfat specific test case under tests/exfat/.

More updates and fixes refer to below, thanks for all these contributions!

Thanks,
Zorro

The new head of the for-next branch is commit:

a370dcbed435 generic/347: Fix sporadic test failures

New commits:

Anthony Iliopoulos (1):
      [be0d986ddfdf] xfs: use -w instead of --path for man program portability

Chao Yu (1):
      [7a6f7338d284] common/rc: support f2fs in _require_fanotify_ioerrors()

ChenXiaoSong (2):
      [3fec7b1d80ad] generic/002: add test to hardlink group
      [5249d98ebb3b] generic: new test to check nlink returned by fstat()

Christian Brauner (1):
      [8954caba9fc4] src/vfs: probe O_TMPFILE support on the base mount in the idmapped tests

Christoph Hellwig (1):
      [feb1bf12484d] generic/761: add to the rw group

Donald Douwsma (1):
      [65ac068039ea] xfs: test xfsdump subtree restores

Filipe Manana (1):
      [361b5e5d5bf9] btrfs: add missing commit IDs to kernel fixes of some tests

Jan Kara (1):
      [a370dcbed435] generic/347: Fix sporadic test failures

Jan Prusakowski (1):
      [bbb3a73297ab] generic/064: allow 50 extents on F2FS after fcollapse

Lin Jiapeng (1):
      [4a5ccb510273] xfs: verify CoW after exchangerange with FILE1_WRITTEN on shared extents

Lukas Herbolt (1):
      [140058abb86f] fstests: fix build errors on kernels before v5.1

Ojaswin Mujoo (1):
      [e846df8f7021] generic/645: notrun if FS doesn't have enough free inodes/blocks

Pankaj Raghav (1):
      [9b0f378ac991] generic: add unaligned boundary test cases for WRITE_ZEROES

Qu Wenruo (1):
      [b69358f4d8ad] fstests: add a dio-read-into-mmap and sync race test case

Rochan Avlur (1):
      [54422f9a4c09] exfat/001: test that rename and move preserve benign secondary entries

Shin'ichiro Kawasaki (2):
      [29d735f251c3] common/rc: add argument to _create_loop_device() to specify device size
      [83760720b81e] generic/563: limit loop device size

Sun YangKai (1):
      [92711dbe73aa] btrfs: test POSIX ACL changes for RO btrfs property

Zorro Lang (1):
      [7536b334c492] Revert "fstests: vfstest: skip rejected tmpfile creation"


Code Diffstat:

 .gitignore                     |   1 +
 common/rc                      |  13 ++-
 configure.ac                   |   1 +
 include/builddefs.in           |   1 +
 m4/package_libcdev.m4          |  14 ++++
 src/Makefile                   |  11 ++-
 src/dio-read-into-mmap.c       |  81 +++++++++++++++++++
 src/exfat_inject_vendor_ext.py | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/exfat_verify_vendor_ext.py |  62 +++++++++++++++
 src/vfs/idmapped-mounts.c      |  12 +--
 src/vfs/utils.c                |   6 +-
 tests/btrfs/349                |   2 +-
 tests/btrfs/350                |   2 +-
 tests/btrfs/351                |   4 +-
 tests/btrfs/353                |  95 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/btrfs/353.out            |  39 +++++++++
 tests/exfat/001                | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/exfat/001.out            |   6 ++
 tests/exfat/Makefile           |  23 ++++++
 tests/generic/002              |   2 +-
 tests/generic/064              |   8 +-
 tests/generic/347              |  13 ++-
 tests/generic/563              |   4 +-
 tests/generic/645              |   8 +-
 tests/generic/761              |   2 +-
 tests/generic/799              |  59 ++++++++++++++
 tests/generic/799.out          |   2 +
 tests/generic/800              |  79 ++++++++++++++++++
 tests/generic/800.out          |   2 +
 tests/generic/801              | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/generic/801.out          |  19 +++++
 tests/xfs/293                  |   2 +-
 tests/xfs/505                  |   2 +-
 tests/xfs/514                  |   2 +-
 tests/xfs/515                  |   2 +-
 tests/xfs/539                  |  62 +++++++++++++++
 tests/xfs/539.out              |   8 ++
 tests/xfs/671                  |  65 +++++++++++++++
 tests/xfs/671.out              |   3 +
 39 files changed, 1190 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
--
Zorro Lang
[email protected]
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