subtree updates

meta-openembedded: c5668905a6..cbbaa82238:
  Alex Kiernan (1):
        lldpd: Upgrade 1.0.14 -> 1.0.15

  Alexander Stein (1):
        dool: Add patch to fix rebuild

  Archana Polampalli (1):
        Nodejs - Upgrade to 16.18.1

  Armin Kuster (2):
        meta-oe][PATCH] gst-editing-services: fix typo in LICENSE field.
        Revert "waf-samba.bbclass: point PYTHON_CONFIG to target python3-config"

  Arsalan H. Awan (1):
        meta-networking/licenses/netperf: remove unused license

  Changqing Li (3):
        redis: 7.0.5 -> 7.0.7
        redis: 6.2.7 -> 6.2.8
        redis: upgrade 7.0.9 -> 7.0.10

  Chee Yang Lee (5):
        zsh: Fix CVE-2021-45444
        fwupd: Fix CVE-2022-3287
        redis: Upgrade to 7.0.8
        redis: Upgrade to 6.2.9
        tinyproxy: fix CVE-2022-40468

  Chen Pei (1):
        botan: upgrade 2.19.2 -> 2.19.3

  Chen Qi (4):
        xfce4-verve-plugin: fix do_configure faiure about missing libpcre
        networkmanager: fix dhcpcd PACKAGECONFIG
        networkmanager: install config files into correct place
        networkmanager: fix /etc/resolv.conf handling

  Dmitry Baryshkov (1):
        nss: fix cross-compilation error

  Geoff Parker (1):
        python3-pillow: add tk to RDEPENDS ptest pkg only if x11 in DISTRO_FEATURES

  Hermes Zhang (1):
        kernel_add_regdb: Change the task order

  Jasper Orschulko (1):
        python3-gcovr: Add missing runtime dependency

  Joe Slater (1):
        phoronix-test-suite: fix CVE-2022-40704

  Kai Kang (2):
        freeradius: fix multilib systemd service start failure
        postfix: fix multilib conflict of sample-main.cf

  Khem Raj (15):
        gnome-text-editor: Add missing libpcre build time depenedency
        ettercap: Add missing dependency on libpcre
        imapfilter: Upgrade to 2.7.6
        aufs-util: Fix build with large file support enabled systems
        volume-key: Inherit python3targetconfig
        audit: Inherit python3targetconfig
        waf-samba.bbclass: point PYTHON_CONFIG to target python3-config
        fontforge: Inherit python3targetconfig
        sshpass: Use SPDX identified string for GPLv2
        perfetto: Do not pass TUNE_CCARGS to native/host compiler
        net-snmp: Fix build with clang16
        ncmpc: Upgrade to 0.47
        mpd: Upgrade to 0.23.12 release
        redis: Upgrade 6.x recipe to 6.2.11
        redis: Upgrade 7.x to 7.0.9

  Leon Anavi (1):
        python3-pythonping: Upgrade 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4

  Markus Volk (3):
        libcamera: upgrade -> 0.0.1
        blueman: add RDEPEND on python3-fcntl
        perfetto: pass TUNE_CCARGS to use machine tune

  Martin Jansa (11):
        monkey: use git fetcher
        nss: fix SRC_URI
        exiv2: fix SRC_URI
        mdns: use git fetcher
        zsh: fix installed-vs-shipped with multilib
        restinio: fix S variable in multilib builds
        mongodb: fix chown user for multilib builds
        pahole: respect libdir
        lvgl,lv-lib-png,lv-drivers: fix installed-vs-shipped QA issue with multilib
        lirc: fix do_install with multilib
        dleyna-{server,renderer}: fix dev-so QA issue with multilib

  Mathieu Dubois-Briand (2):
        nss: Add missing CVE product
        nss: Whitelist CVEs related to libnssdbm

  Mingli Yu (1):
        php: Upgrade to 8.1.16

  Narpat Mali (1):
        net-snmp: CVE-2022-44792 & CVE-2022-44793 Fix NULL Pointer Exception

  Omkar Patil (1):
        ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs: Upgrade 2022.5.17 to 2022.10.3

  Peter Kjellerstedt (2):
        chrony: Make it possible to enable editline support again
        chrony: Remove the libcap and nss PACKAGECONFIGs

  Peter Marko (4):
        cpputest: remove dev package dependency
        ntp: whitelist CVE-2019-11331
        c-ares: fix CVE-2022-4904
        dnsmasq: fix CVE-2023-28450

  Polampalli, Archana (1):
        nodejs: Upgrade 16.19.0 -> 16.19.1

  Preeti Sachan (1):
        fluidsynth: update SRC_URI to remove non-existing 2.2.x branch

  Randy MacLeod (2):
        python3-pillow: add ptest support
        python3-pillow: Add distutils, unixadmin for ptest

  Robert Joslyn (1):
        fwupd: Fix plugin_gpio PACKAGECONFIG

  Samuli Piippo (1):
        protobuf: stage protoc binary to sysroot

  Stefan Ghinea (1):
        mbedtls: upgrade to 2.28.2 to fix CVE-2022-46392, CVE-2022-46393

  Tim Orling (1):
        nodejs: upgrade 16.18.1 -> 16.19.0

  Tom Hochstein (1):
        nlohmann-json: Allow empty main package for SDK

  Valeria Petrov (1):
        apache2: upgrade 2.4.56 -> 2.4.57

  Wang Mingyu (34):
        bats: upgrade 1.8.0 -> 1.8.2
        ctags: upgrade 5.9.20221009.0 -> 5.9.20221016.0
        fvwm: upgrade 2.6.9 -> 2.7.0
        makedumpfile: upgrade 1.7.1 -> 1.7.2
        sanlock: upgrade 3.8.4 -> 3.8.5
        python3-astroid: upgrade 2.12.11 -> 2.12.12
        python3-charset-normalizer: upgrade 2.1.1 -> 3.0.0
        python3-google-api-python-client: upgrade 2.64.0 -> 2.65.0
        python3-google-auth: upgrade 2.12.0 -> 2.13.0
        python3-huey: upgrade 2.4.3 -> 2.4.4
        python3-oauthlib: upgrade 3.2.1 -> 3.2.2
        python3-pandas: upgrade 1.5.0 -> 1.5.1
        python3-pika: upgrade 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1
        python3-protobuf: upgrade 4.21.7 -> 4.21.8
        python3-pywbemtools: upgrade 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1
        python3-socketio: upgrade 5.7.1 -> 5.7.2
        python3-sqlalchemy: upgrade 1.4.41 -> 1.4.42
        tracker: upgrade 3.4.0 -> 3.4.1
        wolfssl: upgrade 5.5.1 -> 5.5.2
        cglm: upgrade 0.8.5 -> 0.8.7
        ctags: upgrade 5.9.20221016.0 -> 5.9.20221023.0
        function2: upgrade 4.2.1 -> 4.2.2
        poco: upgrade 1.12.2 -> 1.12.3
        audit: upgrade 3.0.8 -> 3.0.9
        colord: upgrade 1.4.5 -> 1.4.6
        smcroute: upgrade 2.5.5 -> 2.5.6
        openwsman: upgrade 2.7.1 -> 2.7.2
        python3-pillow: upgrade 9.2.0 -> 9.3.0
        python3-pillow: upgrade 9.3.0 -> 9.4.0
        apache2: upgrade 2.4.54 -> 2.4.55
        python3-django: upgrade 4.1 -> 4.1.3
        python3-django: upgrade 4.1.3 -> 4.1.6
        apache2: upgrade 2.4.55 -> 2.4.56
        openwsman: Change download branch from master to main.

  Xiangyu Chen (1):
        ipmitool: fix typo in .bb file's comments, using = instead of =?

  Yi Zhao (4):
        ostree: fix selinux policy rebuild error on first deployment
        strongswan: upgrade 5.9.8 -> 5.9.9
        freeradius: Security fixes for CVE-2022-41860 CVE-2022-41861
        apache2: use /run instead of /var/run for systemd volatile config

  Yogita Urade (1):
        multipath-tools: fix CVE-2022-41974

  zhengruoqin (2):
        tcpslice: upgrade 1.5 -> 1.6
        tio: upgrade 2.1 -> 2.2

meta-arm: 4ee457693e..58952aa7ba:
  Abdellatif El Khlifi (1):
        arm-bsp/documentation: corstone1000: 2022.11.10 RC: update the user guide

  Adam Johnston (2):
        arm/trusted-services: Fix 'no such file' when building libts
        CI: Remove ts-smm-gateway from N1SDP

  Adrian Herrera (2):
        atp: decouple m5readfile from m5ops
        atp: move m5readfile to meta-gem5

  Adrián Herrera Arcila (5):
        atp: fix failing test_readme
        gem5: support for EXTRAS
        atp: separate recipe for gem5 models
        atp: fix machine overrides in recipes
        ci: add meta-atp to check-layers

  Anton Antonov (1):
        arm-bsp/fvp-base: Enable virtio-rng support and unset preferred 5.15 kernel

  Daniel Díaz (1):
        arm-bsp/firmware-image-juno: Fix deployment of compressed Image

  Diego Sueiro (2):
        arm/classes: Introduce apply_local_src_patches bbclass
        arm/trusted-firmware-m: Fix local source patches application

  Emekcan (3):
        arm-bsp/trusted-services: add checks for null attributes in smm gateway
        arm-bsp/trusted-services: Fix GetNextVariable max_name_len in smm gateway
        arm/fvp: Upgrade Corstone1000 FVP

  Emekcan Aras (3):
        arm-bsp/documentation: corstone1000: update the user guide
        kas/corstone1000-base.yml: set refspec for Corstone1000 release
        arm/trusted-firmware-m: Do not use release branches

  Gowtham Suresh Kumar (6):
        arm/edk2-basetools: Add edk2 base tool native recipe
        arm-bsp/uefi_capsule: Add UEFI capsule generation class
        arm-bsp/corstone1000-image: Generate UEFI capsule for corstone1000 platform
        arm/edk2-basetools: Convert edk2 basetools recipes to native only
        arm-bsp/uefi_capsule: Use json file to pass capsule config
        arm-bsp/uefi_capsule: Move UEFI capsule to IMGDEPLOYDIR

  Jon Mason (4):
        CI: define DEFAULT_TAG and CPU_REQUEST
        arm-bsp/juno: move to compressed initramfs image
        arm-bsp/juno: Update kernel patches to the latest
        CI: dev kernel allow failure

  Luca Fancellu (1):
        arm,arm-bsp/recipes-kernel: don't use PN in arm-ffa-transport.inc

  Peter Hoyes (15):
        arm/fvp: Join cli arguments in verbose logging
        arm/lib: Factor out asyncio in FVPRunner
        arm/lib: Decouple console parsing from the FVPRunner
        arm/oeqa: Log the FVP output in OEFVPSSHTarget
        runfvp: Fix verbose output when using --console
        arm/fvp: Backport shlex.join from Python 3.8
        arm/fvpboot: Disable timing annotation by default
        arm/classes: Ensure patch files are sorted in apply_local_src_patches
        arm/scp-firmware: Ensure CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is capitalized
        arm/scp-firmware: Disable cppcheck
        arm/lib: Add XAUTHORITY to runfvp environment
        classes: Define FVP_ENV_PASSTHROUGH variable dependencies
        classes: Prevent passing None to the runfvp environment
        classes: Set ARMLMD_LICENSE_FILE in the runfvp environment
        CI: Add BUILD_ENABLE_REGEX option to conditionally enable builds

  Qi Feng (1):
        kas/fvp-baser-aemv8r64: Use langdale as kas default refspec

  Robbie Cao (1):
        arm/fvp-base-r-aem: upgrade to version 11.20.15

  Ross Burton (9):
        arm/linux-arm64-ack: fix buildpaths in the perf Python module
        CI: revert a meta-clang change which breaks pixman (thus, xserver)
        CI: add variables needed for k8s runners
        CI: add tags to all jobs
        CI: no need to install telnet
        CI: use the .setup fragment in machine-coverage
        CI: fix builds with clang
        CI: pin to kas 3.2 as 3.2.1 fails
        arm-bsp/external-system: fix the gen_module race, again

  Rui Miguel Silva (4):
        arm/trusted-services: check before applying patches
        arm-bsp/trusted-services: psa test setup corstone1000
        arm-bsp/trusted-firmware-m: adjust ps assets for corstone1000
        kas/corstone500.yml: pin repos to langdale

  Vishnu Banavath (3):
        arm-bsp/documentation: corstone1000: 2022.11.10 RC: update the release notes
        arm-bsp/documentation: corstone1000: 2022.11.10 RC: update the change log
        arm-bsp/optee: register DRAM1 for N1SDP target

poky: 6b9db5a99b..3e95f268ce:
  Adrian Freihofer (2):
        buildconf: compare abspath
        bblayers/setupwriters/oe-setup-layers: create dir if not exists

  Alejandro Hernandez Samaniego (2):
        baremetal-image: Avoid overriding qemu variables from IMAGE_CLASSES
        testimage: Fix error message to reflect new syntax

  Alex Kiernan (2):
        cargo_common.bbclass: Fix typos
        classes: image: Set empty weak default IMAGE_LINGUAS

  Alex Stewart (2):
        lsof: add update-alternatives logic
        opkg: upgrade to version 0.6.1

  Alexander Kanavin (69):
        rust-target-config: match riscv target names with what rust expects
        rust: install rustfmt for riscv32 as well
        shadow: update 4.12.1 -> 4.12.3
        lttng-modules: upgrade 2.13.4 -> 2.13.5
        quilt: backport a patch to address grep 3.8 failures
        go: submit patch upstream
        go: update 1.19 -> 1.19.2
        groff: submit patches upstream
        tcl: correct patch status
        lttng-tools: submit determinism.patch upstream
        kea: submit patch upstream
        ovmf: correct patches status
        libffi: submit patch upstream
        rust: submit a rewritten version of crossbeam_atomic.patch upstream
        ffmpeg: upgrade 5.1.1 -> 5.1.2
        linux-firmware: upgrade 20220913 -> 20221012
        xwayland: upgrade 22.1.3 -> 22.1.4
        libffi: upgrade 3.4.2 -> 3.4.4
        libical: upgrade 3.0.15 -> 3.0.16
        mtd-utils: upgrade 2.1.4 -> 2.1.5
        selftest: add a copy of previous mtd-utils version to meta-selftest
        gdk-pixbuf: upgrade 2.42.9 -> 2.42.10
        pango: upgrade 1.50.10 -> 1.50.11
        pango: replace a recipe fix with an upstream submitted patch
        gstreamer1.0: upgrade 1.20.3 -> 1.20.4
        libepoxy: convert to git
        libepoxy: update 1.5.9 -> 1.5.10
        mesa: do not rely on native llvm-config in target sysroot
        systemd: update 251.4 -> 251.8
        vala: install vapigen-wrapper into /usr/bin/crosscripts and stage only that
        gnomebase.bbclass: return the whole version for tarball directory if it is a number
        glibc-tests: correctly pull in the actual tests when installing -ptest package
        libnewt: update 0.52.21 -> 0.52.23
        ruby: merge .inc into .bb
        ruby: update 3.1.2 -> 3.1.3
        tzdata: update 2022d -> 2022g
        cmake: update 3.24.0 -> 3.24.2
        devtool/upgrade: correctly handle recipes where S is a subdir of upstream tree
        libarchive: upgrade 3.6.1 -> 3.6.2
        go: update 1.19.3 -> 1.19.4
        devtool: process local files only for the main branch
        libksba: update 1.6.2 -> 1.6.3
        linux-firmware: upgrade 20221109 -> 20221214
        xwayland: upgrade 22.1.5 -> 22.1.7
        xserver-xorg: upgrade 21.1.4 -> 21.1.6
        selftest/virgl: use pkg-config from the host
        vulkan-samples: branch rename master -> main
        gdk-pixbuf: do not use tools from gdk-pixbuf-native when building tests
        oeqa/qemurunner: do not use Popen.poll() when terminating runqemu with a signal
        diffutils: update 3.8 -> 3.9
        lttng-tools: update 2.13.8 -> 2.13.9
        apr: update 1.7.0 -> 1.7.2
        apr-util: update 1.6.1 -> 1.6.3
        bind: upgrade 9.18.10 -> 9.18.11
        libjpeg-turbo: upgrade 2.1.4 -> 2.1.5
        pkgconf: upgrade 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
        linux-firmware: upgrade 20221214 -> 20230117
        sudo: upgrade 1.9.12p1 -> 1.9.12p2
        libgit2: upgrade 1.5.0 -> 1.5.1
        vim: update 9.0.1211 -> 9.0.1293 to resolve open CVEs
        dbus: upgrade 1.14.4 -> 1.14.6
        linux-firmware: upgrade 20230117 -> 20230210
        wireless-regdb: upgrade 2022.08.12 -> 2023.02.13
        bblayers/makesetup: skip git repos that are submodules
        sudo: update 1.9.12p2 -> 1.9.13p2
        libdnf: update 0.69.0 -> 0.70.0
        pango: upgrade 1.50.12 -> 1.50.13
        apt: re-enable version check
        devtool/upgrade: do not delete the workspace/recipes directory

  Alexey Smirnov (1):
        classes: make TOOLCHAIN more permissive for kernel

  Alexis Lothoré (1):
        oeqa/selftest/resulttooltests: fix minor typo

  Andrew Geissler (1):
        filemap.py: enforce maximum of 4kb block size

  Anton Antonov (1):
        rust: Do not use default compiler flags defined in CC crate

  Antonin Godard (2):
        busybox: always start do_compile with orig config files
        busybox: rm temporary files if do_compile was interrupted

  Armin Kuster (1):
        lttng-modules: Fix for 5.10.163 kernel version

  Arnout Vandecappelle (1):
        python3-pytest: depend on python3-tomli instead of python3-toml

  Arturo Buzarra (1):
        run-postinsts: Set dependency for ldconfig to avoid boot issues

  Benoît Mauduit (1):
        lib/oe/reproducible: Use git log without gpg signature

  Bernhard Rosenkränzer (1):
        cmake-native: Fix host tool contamination

  Bhabu Bindu (1):
        qemu: Fix CVE-2022-4144

  Bruce Ashfield (35):
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.72
        linux-yocto/5.19: update to v5.19.14
        kern-tools: fix relative path processing
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.74
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.76
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.78
        linux-yocto/5.15: fix CONFIG_CRYPTO_CCM mismatch warnings
        linux-yocto/5.19: update to v5.19.16
        linux-yocto/5.19: update to v5.19.17
        linux-yocto/5.19: cfg: intel and vesa updates
        linux-yocto/5.19: security.cfg: remove configs which have been dropped
        linux-yocto/5.19: fix CONFIG_CRYPTO_CCM mismatch warnings
        linux-yocto/5.19: fix elfutils run-backtrace-native-core ptest failure
        kern-tools: integrate ZFS speedup patch
        linux-yocto/5.19: fix perf build with clang
        linux-yocto/5.15: ltp and squashfs fixes
        linux-yocto/5.15: fix perf build with clang
        linux-yocto/5.15: libbpf: Fix build warning on ref_ctr_off
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.84
        linux-yocto/5.15: powerpc: Fix reschedule bug in KUAP-unlocked user copy
        linux-yocto/5.19: powerpc: Fix reschedule bug in KUAP-unlocked user copy
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.87
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.89
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.91
        lttng-modules: fix for kernel 6.2+
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.94
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.96
        linux-yocto-rt/5.15: update to -rt59
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.98
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.103
        lttng-modules: update to v2.13.9
        kernel-devsrc: fix mismatched compiler warning
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.106
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.107
        linux-yocto/5.15: update to v5.15.108

  Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (3):
        xwayland: libxshmfence is needed when dri3 is enabled
        mesa-gl: gallium is required when enabling x11
        mesa-demos: packageconfig weston should have a dependency on wayland-protocols

  Changqing Li (2):
        base.bbclass: Fix way to check ccache path
        apt: fix do_package_qa failure

  Charlie Johnston (1):
        opkg: ensure opkg uses private gpg.conf when applying keys.

  Chee Yang Lee (5):
        git: upgrade to 2.37.5
        tiff: fix multiple CVEs
        git: ignore CVE-2023-22743
        tiff: Fix CVE-2023-0795 CVE-2023-0796 CVE-2023-0797 CVE-2023-0798 CVE-2023-0799
        go: upgrade to 1.19.7

  Chen Qi (9):
        kernel.bbclass: make KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS work at rebuild
        dhcpcd: fix to work with systemd
        resolvconf: make it work
        psplash: consider the situation of psplash not exist for systemd
        bc: extend to nativesdk
        rm_work: adjust dependency to make do_rm_work_all depend on do_rm_work
        dhcpcd: backport two patches to fix runtime error
        libseccomp: fix typo in DESCRIPTION
        ffmpeg: fix configure failure on noexec /tmp host

  Chris Elledge (1):
        busybox: move hwclock init earlier in startup

  Christian Eggers (1):
        linux-firmware: split rtl8761 firmware

  Christoph Lauer (1):
        populate_sdk_base: add zip options

  Claus Stovgaard (1):
        gstreamer1.0-libav: fix errors with ffmpeg 5.x

  Diego Sueiro (1):
        kernel.bbclass: Include randstruct seed assets in STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR

  Dmitry Baryshkov (5):
        linux-firmware: upgrade 20221012 -> 20221109
        linux-firmware: add new fw file to ${PN}-qcom-adreno-a530
        linux-firmware: properly set license for all Qualcomm firmware
        linux-firmware: add yamato fw files to qcom-adreno-a2xx package
        ffmpeg: fix build failure when vulkan is enabled

  Ed Tanous (1):
        openssl: Upgrade 3.0.5 -> 3.0.7

  Enguerrand de Ribaucourt (1):
        bitbake-layers: fix a typo

  Enrico Jörns (8):
        sstatesig: emit more helpful error message when not finding sstate manifest
        oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu: update imports
        oeqa/targetcontrol: fix misspelled RuntimeError
        oeqa/targetcontrol: do not set dump_host_cmds redundantly
        oeqa/targetcontrol: remove unused imports
        oeqa/utils/commands: fix usage of undefined EPIPE
        oeqa/utils/commands: remove unused imports
        oeqa/utils/qemurunner: replace hard-coded user 'root' in debug output

  Etienne Cordonnier (2):
        mirrors.bbclass: use shallow tarball for binutils-native
        bitbake: siggen: Fix inefficient string concatenation

  Fawzi KHABER (3):
        ref-manual: update DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY in variables
        package.bbclass: check packages name conflict in do_package
        oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py: adding unittest for package rename conflicts

  Federico Pellegrin (1):
        curl: fix dependencies when building with ldap/ldaps

  Frank de Brabander (2):
        bitbake: process: log odd unlink events with bitbake.sock
        bitbake: bin/utils: Ensure locale en_US.UTF-8 is available on the system

  Frederic Martinsons (1):
        cargo.bbclass: use offline mode for building

  Geoffrey GIRY (2):
        cve-extra-exclusions: ignore inapplicable linux-yocto CVEs
        cve-check: Fix false negative version issue

  Harald Seiler (2):
        opkg: Set correct info_dir and status_file in opkg.conf
        bootchart2: Fix usrmerge support

  He Zhe (1):
        lttng-modules: update 2.13.7 -> 2.13.8

  Hitendra Prajapati (3):
        openssl: CVE-2022-3358 Using a Custom Cipher with NID_undef may lead to NULL encryption
        libarchive: CVE-2022-36227 NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c
        libxml2: Fix CVE-2022-40303 && CVE-2022-40304

  Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa (1):
        qemuboot.bbclass: make sure runqemu boots bundled initramfs kernel image

  Jan Kircher (1):
        toolchain-scripts: compatibility with unbound variable protection

  Jan-Simon Moeller (1):
        buildtools-tarball: export certificates to python and curl

  Jeremy Puhlman (1):
        qemu-native: Add PACKAGECONFIG option for jack

  Jermain Horsman (1):
        cve-check: write the cve manifest to IMGDEPLOYDIR

  Jose Quaresma (10):
        kernel-yocto: improve fatal error messages of symbol_why.py
        archiver: avoid using machine variable as it breaks multiconfig
        sstatesig: skip the rm_work task signature
        rm_work: exclude the SSTATETASKS from the rm_work tasks sinature
        sstate: Allow optimisation of do_deploy_archives task dependencies
        Revert "gstreamer1.0: disable flaky gstbin:test_watch_for_state_change test"
        gstreamer1.0: Fix race conditions in gstbin tests
        oeqs/selftest: OESelftestTestContext: replace the os.environ after subprocess.check_output
        oeqa/selftest: OESelftestTestContext: convert relative to full path when newbuilddir is provided
        oeqa/selftest/reproducible: Split different packages from missing packages output

  Joshua Watt (6):
        runqemu: Do not perturb script environment
        runqemu: Fix gl-es argument from causing other arguments to be ignored
        qemu-helper-native: Re-write bridge helper as C program
        qemu-helper-native: Correctly pass program name as argv[0]
        scripts: convert-overrides: Allow command-line customizations
        classes/populate_sdk_base: Append cleandirs

  Justin Bronder (1):
        bitbake: asyncrpc: serv: correct closed client socket detection

  Kai Kang (3):
        mesa: only apply patch to fix ALWAYS_INLINE for native
        libuv: fixup SRC_URI
        xserver-xorg: 21.1.6 -> 21.1.7

  Keiya Nobuta (1):
        create-spdx: Remove ";name=..." for downloadLocation

  Kenfe-Mickael Laventure (3):
        buildtools-tarball: Handle spaces within user $PATH
        toolchain-scripts: Handle spaces within user $PATH
        populate_sdk_ext: Handle spaces within user $PATH

  Khem Raj (11):
        tiff: Add packageconfig knob for webp
        createrepo-c: Include missing rpm/rpmstring.h
        libtirpc: Check if file exists before operating on it
        libusb1: Link with latomic only if compiler has no atomic builtins
        libusb1: Strip trailing whitespaces
        scons: Pass MAXLINELENGTH to scons invocation
        scons.bbclass: Make MAXLINELENGTH overridable
        libcomps: Fix callback function prototype for PyCOMPS_hash
        rpm: Fix hdr_hash function prototype
        systemd.bbclass: Add /usr/lib/systemd to searchpaths as well
        Revert "runqemu: Add workaround for APIC hang on pre 4.15 kernels on qemux86"

  Konrad Weihmann (1):
        create-spdx: default share_src for shared sources

  Lee Chee Yang (2):
        git: Upgrade to 2.37.4
        migration-guides: add release-notes for 4.0.7

  Leon Anavi (1):
        get_module_deps3.py: Check attribute '__file__'

  Liam Beguin (1):
        meson: make wrapper options sub-command specific

  Louis Rannou (1):
        oeqa/selftest/locales: Add selftest for locale generation/presence

  Luca Boccassi (1):
        systemd: add systemd-creds and systemd-cryptenroll to systemd-extra-utils

  Luis (1):
        rm_work.bbclass: use HOSTTOOLS 'rm' binary exclusively

  Marek Vasut (5):
        bluez5: Point hciattach bcm43xx firmware search path to /lib/firmware
        systemd: Make importd depend on glib-2.0 again
        bitbake: fetch2/git: Prevent git fetcher from fetching gitlab repository metadata
        bitbake: fetch2/git: Clarify the meaning of namespace
        cpio: Fix wrong CRC with ASCII CRC for large files

  Mark Asselstine (1):
        bitbake: bitbake: bitbake-layers: checkout layer(s) branch when clone exists

  Markus Volk (2):
        mesa: update 22.2.0 -> 22.2.2
        librsvg: enable vapi build

  Marta Rybczynska (1):
        cve-update-db-native: avoid incomplete updates

  Martin Jansa (12):
        vulkan-samples: add lfs=0 to SRC_URI to avoid git smudge errors in do_unpack
        externalsrc.bbclass: fix git repo detection
        libxml2: fix test data checksums
        meta: remove True option to getVar and getVarFlag calls (again)
        timezone: use 'tz' subdir instead of ${WORKDIR} directly
        tzdata: use separate B instead of WORKDIR for zic output
        tzcode-native: fix build with gcc-13 on host
        selftest: devtool: set BB_HASHSERVE_UPSTREAM when setting SSTATE_MIRROR
        bmap-tools: switch to main branch
        selftest: runqemu: better check for ROOTFS: in the log
        selftest: runqemu: use better error message when asserts fail
        runqemu: respect IMAGE_LINK_NAME

  Mateusz Marciniec (1):
        sstatesig: Improve output hash calculation

  Mathieu Dubois-Briand (1):
        dbus: Add missing CVE product name

  Mauro Queiros (1):
        image.bbclass: print all QA functions exceptions

  Michael Halstead (3):
        uninative: Upgrade to 3.8.1 to include libgcc
        selftest/runtime_test/virgl: Disable for all Rocky Linux
        uninative: Upgrade to 3.9 to include glibc 2.37

  Michael Opdenacker (13):
        bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: details about variable flags starting with underscore
        create-spdx.bbclass: remove unused SPDX_INCLUDE_PACKAGED
        backport SPDX documentation and vulnerability improvements
        Expand create-spdx class documentation
        Expand cve-check class documentation
        manuals: add 4.0.5 and 4.0.6 release notes
        dev-manual: fix old override syntax
        ref-manual: variables.rst: fix broken hyperlink
        profile-manual: update WireShark hyperlinks
        bsp-guide: fix broken git URLs and missing word
        manuals: update patchwork instance URL
        dev-manual: common-tasks.rst: add link to FOSDEM 2023 video
        migration-guides: update release notes

  Mikko Rapeli (13):
        common-tasks.rst: fix oeqa runtime test path
        oeqa context.py: fix --target-ip comment to include ssh port number
        oeqa ssh.py: move output prints to new line
        oeqa ssh.py: add connection keep alive options to ssh client
        oeqa dump.py: add error counter and stop after 5 failures
        oeqa qemurunner: read more data at a time from serial
        oeqa qemurunner.py: add timeout to QMP calls
        oeqa qemurunner.py: try to avoid reading one character at a time
        oeqa ssh.py: fix hangs in run()
        runqemu: kill qemu if it hangs
        oeqa rtc.py: skip if read-only-rootfs
        oeqa ping.py: avoid busylooping failing ping command
        oeqa ping.py: fail test if target IP address has not been set

  Ming Liu (1):
        linux: inherit pkgconfig in kernel.bbclass

  Mingli Yu (6):
        grub: disable build on armv7ve/a with hardfp
        glslang: branch rename master -> main
        mdadm: Fix testcase 06wrmostly
        mdadm: fix tests/02lineargrow
        mdadm: Fix raid0 tests
        report-error: catch Nothing PROVIDES error

  Narpat Mali (4):
        ffmpeg: fix for CVE-2022-3964
        ffmpeg: fix for CVE-2022-3965
        libseccomp: fix for the ptest result format
        python3-setuptools: fix for CVE-2022-40897

  Nathan Rossi (2):
        oeqa/selftest/lic_checksum: Cleanup changes to emptytest include
        package: Fix handling of minidebuginfo with newer binutils

  Niko Mauno (3):
        systemd: Consider PACKAGECONFIG in RRECOMMENDS
        Fix missing leading whitespace with ':append'
        ref-manual: Fix invalid feature name

  Ola x Nilsson (1):
        kbd: Don't build tests

  Ovidiu Panait (1):
        kernel.bbclass: remove empty module directories to prevent QA issues

  Pavel Zhukov (4):
        bitbake: gitsm: Fix regression in gitsm submodule path parsing
        oeqa/rpm.py: Increase timeout and add debug output
        wic: Fix usage of fstype=none in wic
        u-boot: Map arm64 into map for u-boot dts installation

  Pawel Zalewski (1):
        classes/fs-uuid: Fix command output decoding issue

  Peter Bergin (1):
        gptfdisk: remove warning message from target system

  Peter Kjellerstedt (4):
        externalsrc.bbclass: Remove a trailing slash from ${B}
        pango: Make it build with ptest disabled
        librsvg: Only enable the Vala bindings if GObject Introspection is enabled
        devshell: Do not add scripts/git-intercept to PATH

  Peter Marko (6):
        systemd: add group render to udev package
        meta-selftest/staticids: add render group for systemd
        externalsrc: fix lookup for .gitmodules
        oeqa/selftest/externalsrc: add test for srctree_hash_files
        systemd: add group sgx to udev package
        gcc-shared-source: do not use ${S}/.. in deploy_source_date_epoch

  Petr Kubizňák (1):
        harfbuzz: remove bindir only if it exists

  Piotr Łobacz (1):
        systemd: fix wrong nobody-group assignment

  Polampalli, Archana (1):
        libpam: fix CVE-2022-28321

  Qiu, Zheng (3):
        tiff: fix a typo for CVE-2022-2953.patch
        tiff: Security fix for CVE-2022-3970
        vim: upgrade 9.0.0820 -> 9.0.0947

  Quentin Schulz (4):
        cairo: update patch for CVE-2019-6461 with upstream solution
        docs: kernel-dev: faq: update tip on how to not include kernel in image
        docs: migration-4.0: specify variable name change for kernel inclusion in image recipe
        cairo: fix CVE patches assigned wrong CVE number

  Randy MacLeod (3):
        valgrind: skip the boost_thread test on arm
        vim: upgrade 9.0.0947 -> 9.0.1211
        vim: upgrade 9.0.1403 -> 9.0.1429

  Ranjitsinh Rathod (1):
        curl: Correct LICENSE from MIT-open-group to curl

  Ravula Adhitya Siddartha (2):
        linux-yocto/5.15: update genericx86* machines to v5.15.72
        linux-yocto/5.19: update genericx86* machines to v5.19.14

  Richard Purdie (37):
        build-appliance-image: Update to langdale head revision
        bitbake: runqueue: Fix race issues around hash equivalence and sstate reuse
        lttng-modules: upgrade 2.13.5 -> 2.13.7
        bitbake.conf: Drop export of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_FALLBACK
        gcc-shared-source: Fix source date epoch handling
        gcc-source: Fix gengtypes race
        gcc-source: Drop gengtype manipulation
        gcc-source: Ensure deploy_source_date_epoch sstate hash doesn't change
        sanity: Drop data finalize call
        oeqa/selftest/tinfoil: Add test for separate config_data with recipe_parse_file()
        qemu: Ensure libpng dependency is deterministic
        yocto-check-layer: Allow OE-Core to be tested
        oeqa/concurrencytest: Add number of failures to summary output
        build-appliance-image: Update to langdale head revision
        bitbake: server/process: Add bitbake.sock race handling
        native: Drop special variable handling
        kernel/linux-kernel-base: Fix kernel build artefact determinism issues
        make-mod-scripts: Ensure kernel build output is deterministic
        perf: Enable debug/source packaging
        libc-locale: Fix on target locale generation
        libssh2: Clean up ptest patch/coverage
        build-appliance-image: Update to langdale head revision
        bitbake: utils: Allow to_boolean to support int values
        bitbake: cookerdata: Remove incorrect SystemExit usage
        bitbake: cookerdata: Improve early exception handling
        bitbake: cookerdata: Drop dubious exception handling code
        binutils: Fix nativesdk ld.so search
        oeqa/selftest/prservice: Improve debug output for failure
        staging: Separate out different multiconfig manifests
        staging/multilib: Fix manifest corruption
        glibc: Add missing binutils dependency
        selftest/recipetool: Stop test corrupting tinfoil class
        base-files: Drop localhost.localdomain from hosts file
        pybootchartui: Fix python syntax issue
        pybootchart: Fix extents handling to account for cpu/io/mem pressure changes
        xdg-utils: Add a patch for CVE-2020-27748
        xdg-utils: Fix CVE number

  Robert Andersson (1):
        go-crosssdk: avoid host contamination by GOCACHE

  Robert Joslyn (2):
        curl: Backport CVE fixes
        curl: Fix CVE-2022-43551 and CVE-2022-43552

  Robert Yang (1):
        bitbake: fetch/git: Fix local clone url to make it work with repo

  Rodolfo Quesada Zumbado (1):
        tar: CVE-2022-48303

  Romuald JEANNE (1):
        image_types: fix vname var init in multiubi_mkfs() function

  Romuald Jeanne (1):
        image_types: fix multiubi var init

  Ross Burton (48):
        libx11: apply the fix for CVE-2022-3554
        xserver-xorg: ignore CVE-2022-3553 as it is XQuartz-specific
        xserver-xorg: backport fixes for CVE-2022-3550 and CVE-2022-3551
        tiff: fix a number of CVEs
        qemu: backport the fix for CVE-2022-3165
        pango: upgrade 1.50.9 -> 1.50.10
        zlib: do out-of-tree builds
        zlib: upgrade 1.2.12 -> 1.2.13
        bitbake: fetch2/git: don't set core.fsyncobjectfiles=0
        pixman: backport fix for CVE-2022-44638
        sudo: backport fix for CVE-2022-43995
        sanity: check for GNU tar specifically
        expat: upgrade to 2.5.0
        oeqa/runtime/dnf: rewrite test_dnf_installroot_usrmerge
        insane: add codeload.github.com to src-uri-bad check
        linux-firmware: don't put the firmware into the sysroot
        lib/buildstats: fix parsing of trees with reduced_proc_pressure directories
        combo-layer: remove unused import
        combo-layer: dont use bb.utils.rename
        combo-layer: add sync-revs command
        libepoxy: remove upstreamed patch
        cve-update-db-native: show IP on failure
        pango: upgrade 1.50.11 -> 1.50.12
        oeqa/selftest/debuginfod: improve testcase
        curl: don't enable debug builds
        bitbake: bb/utils: include SSL certificate paths in export_proxies
        ppp: backport fix for CVE-2022-4603
        quilt: fix intermittent failure in faildiff.test
        spirv-headers/spirv-tools: set correct branch name
        quilt: use upstreamed faildiff.test fix
        git: ignore CVE-2022-41953
        buildtools-tarball: set pkg-config search path
        sdkext/cases/devtool: pass a logger to HTTPService
        httpserver: add error handler that write to the logger
        less: backport the fix for CVE-2022-46663
        lib/buildstats: handle tasks that never finished
        cml1: remove redundant addtask
        shadow: ignore CVE-2016-15024
        vim: add missing pkgconfig inherit
        vim: upgrade to 9.0.1403
        vim: set modified-by to the recipe MAINTAINER
        meson: remove obsolete RPATH stripping patch
        lib/resulttool: fix typo breaking resulttool log --ptest
        scripts/lib/buildstats: handle top-level build_stats not being complete
        tzdata: upgrade to 2023c
        oeqa/runtime: clean up deprecated backslash expansion
        xserver-xorg: backport fix for CVE-2023-1393
        screen: backport fix for CVE-2023-24626

  Ryan Eatmon (1):
        go: Update reproducibility patch to fix panic errors

  Sakib Sajal (2):
        go: update 1.19.2 -> 1.19.3
        git: upgrade 2.37.5 -> 2.37.6

  Sandeep Gundlupet Raju (3):
        libdrm: Remove libdrm-kms package
        kernel-fitimage: Adjust order of dtb/dtbo files
        kernel-fitimage: Allow user to select dtb when multiple dtb exists

  Saul Wold (2):
        at: Change when files are copied
        busybox: Fix depmod patch

  Sean Anderson (3):
        uboot-sign: Fix using wrong KEY_REQ_ARGS
        kernel: Clear SYSROOT_DIRS instead of replacing sysroot_stage_all
        kernel-fitimage: Use KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR where appropriate

  Sergei Zhmylev (2):
        wic: honor the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in case of updated fstab
        wic: make ext2/3/4 images reproducible

  Siddharth (1):
        harfbuzz: Security fix for CVE-2023-25193

  Siddharth Doshi (3):
        openssl: Upgrade 3.0.7 -> 3.0.8
        epiphany: Security fix for CVE-2023-26081
        openssl: Security fix for CVE-2023-0464, CVE-2023-0465, CVE-2023-0466

  Soumya (1):
        shadow: Fix can not print full login timeout message

  Steve Sakoman (8):
        poky.conf: bump version for 4.1.1
        Revert "sudo: backport fix for CVE-2022-43995"
        poky.conf: bump version for 4.1.2
        poky.conf: Update SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS to match autobuilder
        system-requirements.rst: Add Fedora 36, AlmaLinux 8.7 & 9.1, and OpenSUSE 15.4 to list of supported distros
        poky.conf: bump version for 4.1.3
        poky.conf: bump version for 4.1.4
        build-appliance-image: Update to langdale head revision

  Sudip Mukherjee (1):
        libgit2: update license information

  Teoh Jay Shen (1):
        vim: Upgrade 9.0.0598 -> 9.0.0614

  Thomas Perrot (1):
        xserver-xorg: move some recommended dependencies in required

  Thomas Roos (1):
        devtool: fix devtool finish when gitmodules file is empty

  Tim Orling (7):
        vim: upgrade 9.0.0614 -> 9.0.0820
        python3-mako: upgrade 1.2.2 -> 1.2.3
        mirrors.bbclass: update CPAN_MIRROR
        bitbake: toaster: fixtures/README: django 1.8 -> 3.2
        bitbake: toaster: fixtures/gen_fixtures.py: update branches
        bitbake: toaster: Add refreshed oe-core and poky fixtures
        cracklib: update github branch to 'main'

  Tobias Hagelborn (2):
        sstate.bbclass: Fetch non-existing local .sig files if needed
        lib/oe/gpg_sign.py: Avoid race when creating .sig files in detach_sign

  Tom Hochstein (2):
        meson: Fix wrapper handling of implicit setup command
        oeqa/sdk: Improve Meson test

  Trevor Woerner (3):
        cups: use BUILDROOT instead of DESTDIR
        cups: check PACKAGECONFIG for pam feature
        cups: add/fix web interface packaging

  Ulrich Ölmann (4):
        recipe_sanity: fix old override syntax
        lsof: fix old override syntax
        update-alternatives: fix typos
        kernel-yocto: fix kernel-meta data detection

  Vincent Davis Jr (1):
        linux-firmware: package amdgpu firmware

  Vivek Kumbhar (1):
        openssl: fix CVE-2022-3996 double locking leads to denial of service

  Vyacheslav Yurkov (1):
        overlayfs: Allow not used mount points

  Wang Mingyu (26):
        bind: upgrade 9.18.7 -> 9.18.8
        inetutils: upgrade 2.3 -> 2.4
        socat: upgrade 1.7.4.3 -> 1.7.4.4
        libxcrypt: upgrade 4.4.28 -> 4.4.30
        xwayland: upgrade 22.1.4 -> 22.1.5
        sysstat: upgrade 12.6.0 -> 12.6.1
        mobile-broadband-provider-info: upgrade 20220725 -> 20221107
        libsdl2: upgrade 2.24.1 -> 2.24.2
        mesa: upgrade 22.2.2 -> 22.2.3
        babeltrace: upgrade 1.5.8 -> 1.5.11
        iso-codes: upgrade 4.11.0 -> 4.12.0
        bind: upgrade 9.18.8 -> 9.18.9
        libxcrypt-compat: upgrade 4.4.30 -> 4.4.33
        mpfr: upgrade 4.1.0 -> 4.1.1
        libpng: upgrade 1.6.38 -> 1.6.39
        help2man: upgrade 1.49.2 -> 1.49.3
        gstreamer1.0: upgrade 1.20.4 -> 1.20.5
        bind: upgrade 9.18.9 -> 9.18.10
        libjpeg-turbo: upgrade 2.1.5 -> 2.1.5.1
        xwayland: upgrade 22.1.7 -> 22.1.8
        iso-codes: upgrade 4.12.0 -> 4.13.0
        libmicrohttpd: upgrade 0.9.75 -> 0.9.76
        lua: Fix install conflict when enable multilib.
        vala: Fix install conflict when enable multilib.
        dhcpcd: Fix install conflict when enable multilib.
        xcb-proto: Fix install conflict when enable multilib.

  Xiangyu Chen (7):
        sudo: upgrade 1.9.11p3 -> 1.9.12p1
        grub: backport patches to fix CVE-2022-28736
        openssh: remove RRECOMMENDS to rng-tools for sshd package
        grub2: backport patch to fix CVE-2022-2601 CVE-2022-3775
        numactl: skip test case when target platform doesn't have 2 CPU node
        dhcpcd: fix dhcpcd start failure on qemuppc64
        sudo: update 1.9.13p2 -> 1.9.13p3

  Zoltan Boszormenyi (1):
        piglit: Fix build time dependency

  ciarancourtney (1):
        wic: swap partitions are not added to fstab

  leimaohui (1):
        libpng: Enable NEON for aarch64 to enensure consistency with arm32.

  pgowda (1):
        binutils: Add patch to fix CVE-2022-4285

  wangmy (13):
        meson: upgrade 0.63.2 -> 0.63.3
        mtools: upgrade 4.0.40 -> 4.0.41
        ifupdown: upgrade 0.8.37 -> 0.8.39
        gnutls: upgrade 3.7.7 -> 3.7.8
        libcap: upgrade 2.65 -> 2.66
        libical: upgrade 3.0.14 -> 3.0.15
        numactl: upgrade 2.0.15 -> 2.0.16
        wpebackend-fdo: upgrade 1.12.1 -> 1.14.0
        libksba: upgrade 1.6.0 -> 1.6.2
        libsdl2: upgrade 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
        lttng-ust: upgrade 2.13.4 -> 2.13.5
        lighttpd: upgrade 1.4.66 -> 1.4.67
        dbus: upgrade 1.14.0 -> 1.14.4

meta-security: 2aa48e6f4e..a4562b1912:
  Anton Antonov (2):
        Flush caches after OEQA tests
        Fix PACKAGECONFIG check in Parsec OEQA tests

  Armin Kuster (2):
        packagegroup-security-tpm2: restore pkgs removed earlier
        Revert "meta-parsec/layer.conf: Insert addpylib declaration"

  Peter Hoyes (1):
        meta-parsec/layer.conf: Insert addpylib declaration

meta-raspberrypi: 722c51647c..8e3cbfa598:
  Andrei Gherzan (2):
        ci: Bump actions/checkout to v3
        ci: Fix dco-check job with newer git versions

  Florin Sarbu (1):
        udev-rules-rpi: Use 99-com.rules directly from upstream

  Martin Jansa (1):
        raspberrypi4-64: drop DEFAULTTUNE assignment

  Sung Gon Kim (1):
        libcamera: rename bbappend to match any version

Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>
Change-Id: I394eff2a339089121317b9dfb1a2ff4dfcae3339

32 files changed, 361 insertions, 103 deletions

diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
index f956a7744f..4ab0cddb43 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ class OESSHTarget(OETarget):
         self.timeout = timeout
         self.user = user
         ssh_options = [
+                '-o', 'ServerAliveCountMax=2',
+                '-o', 'ServerAliveInterval=30',
                 '-o', 'UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null',
                 '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
                 '-o', 'LogLevel=ERROR'
@@ -224,27 +226,33 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
     def run():
         nonlocal output
         nonlocal process
+        output_raw = b''
         starttime = time.time()
         process = subprocess.Popen(command, **options)
         if timeout:
             endtime = starttime + timeout
             eof = False
+            os.set_blocking(process.stdout.fileno(), False)
             while time.time() < endtime and not eof:
-                logger.debug('time: %s, endtime: %s' % (time.time(), endtime))
                 try:
+                    logger.debug('Waiting for process output: time: %s, endtime: %s' % (time.time(), endtime))
                     if select.select([process.stdout], [], [], 5)[0] != []:
-                        reader = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(process.stdout, 'ignore')
-                        data = reader.read(1024, 4096)
+                        # wait a bit for more data, tries to avoid reading single characters
+                        time.sleep(0.2)
+                        data = process.stdout.read()
                         if not data:
-                            process.stdout.close()
                             eof = True
                         else:
-                            output += data
-                            logger.debug('Partial data from SSH call: %s' % data)
+                            output_raw += data
+                            # ignore errors to capture as much as possible
+                            logger.debug('Partial data from SSH call:\n%s' % data.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore'))
                             endtime = time.time() + timeout
                 except InterruptedError:
+                    logger.debug('InterruptedError')
                     continue
 
+            process.stdout.close()
+
             # process hasn't returned yet
             if not eof:
                 process.terminate()
@@ -252,16 +260,30 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
                 try:
                     process.kill()
                 except OSError:
+                    logger.debug('OSError when killing process')
                     pass
                 endtime = time.time() - starttime
                 lastline = ("\nProcess killed - no output for %d seconds. Total"
                             " running time: %d seconds." % (timeout, endtime))
-                logger.debug('Received data from SSH call %s ' % lastline)
+                logger.debug('Received data from SSH call:\n%s ' % lastline)
                 output += lastline
 
         else:
-            output = process.communicate()[0].decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
-            logger.debug('Data from SSH call: %s' % output.rstrip())
+            output_raw = process.communicate()[0]
+
+        output = output_raw.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
+        logger.debug('Data from SSH call:\n%s' % output.rstrip())
+
+        # timout or not, make sure process exits and is not hanging
+        if process.returncode == None:
+            try:
+                process.wait(timeout=5)
+            except TimeoutExpired:
+                try:
+                    process.kill()
+                except OSError:
+                    logger.debug('OSError')
+                    pass
 
     options = {
         "stdout": subprocess.PIPE,
@@ -290,4 +312,5 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
             process.kill()
         logger.debug('Something went wrong, killing SSH process')
         raise
-    return (process.wait(), output.rstrip())
+
+    return (process.returncode, output.rstrip())
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/utils/concurrencytest.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/utils/concurrencytest.py
index 383479c959..4f77589b00 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/utils/concurrencytest.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core/utils/concurrencytest.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class BBThreadsafeForwardingResult(ThreadsafeForwardingResult):
         self.outputbuf = output
         self.finalresult = finalresult
         self.finalresult.buffer = True
+        self.target = target
 
     def _add_result_with_semaphore(self, method, test, *args, **kwargs):
         self.semaphore.acquire()
@@ -67,13 +68,14 @@ class BBThreadsafeForwardingResult(ThreadsafeForwardingResult):
                 self.result.starttime[test.id()] = self._test_start.timestamp()
                 self.result.threadprogress[self.threadnum].append(test.id())
                 totalprogress = sum(len(x) for x in self.result.threadprogress.values())
-                self.result.progressinfo[test.id()] = "%s: %s/%s %s/%s (%ss) (%s)" % (
+                self.result.progressinfo[test.id()] = "%s: %s/%s %s/%s (%ss) (%s failed) (%s)" % (
                     self.threadnum,
                     len(self.result.threadprogress[self.threadnum]),
                     self.totalinprocess,
                     totalprogress,
                     self.totaltests,
                     "{0:.2f}".format(time.time()-self._test_start.timestamp()),
+                    self.target.failed_tests,
                     test.id())
         finally:
             self.semaphore.release()
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/apt.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/apt.py
index 4e09374add..8000645843 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/apt.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/apt.py
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ class AptRepoTest(AptTest):
         self.target.run('cd %s; echo deb [ allow-insecure=yes ] %s/all ./ > sources.list' % (apt_get_sourceslist_dir, apt_get_source_server))
 
     def setup_source_config_for_package_install_signed(self):
-        apt_get_source_server = 'http:\/\/%s:%s' % (self.tc.target.server_ip, self.repo_server.port)
+        apt_get_source_server = 'http://%s:%s' % (self.tc.target.server_ip, self.repo_server.port)
         apt_get_sourceslist_dir = '/etc/apt/'
-        self.target.run("cd %s; cp sources.list sources.list.bak; sed -i 's/\[trusted=yes\] http:\/\/bogus_ip:bogus_port/%s/g' sources.list" % (apt_get_sourceslist_dir, apt_get_source_server))
+        self.target.run("cd %s; cp sources.list sources.list.bak; sed -i 's|\[trusted=yes\] http://bogus_ip:bogus_port|%s|g' sources.list" % (apt_get_sourceslist_dir, apt_get_source_server))
 
     def cleanup_source_config_for_package_install(self):
         apt_get_sourceslist_dir = '/etc/apt/'
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/buildcpio.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/buildcpio.py
index bd3b46d9ef..3728855d24 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/buildcpio.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/buildcpio.py
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ class BuildCpioTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
     @OEHasPackage(['autoconf'])
     def test_cpio(self):
         self.project.download_archive()
-        self.project.run_configure('--disable-maintainer-mode',
-                                   'sed -i -e "/char \*program_name/d" src/global.c;')
+        self.project.run_configure('--disable-maintainer-mode')
+        # This sed is needed until
+        # https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/src/global.c?id=641d3f489cf6238bb916368d4ba0d9325a235afb
+        # is in a release.
+        self.project._run(r'sed -i -e "/char \*program_name/d" %s/src/global.c' % self.project.targetdir)
         self.project.run_make()
         self.project.run_install()
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/dnf.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/dnf.py
index 410d456bdf..3ccb18ce83 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/dnf.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/dnf.py
@@ -147,29 +147,21 @@ class DnfRepoTest(DnfTest):
         rootpath = '/home/root/chroot/test'
         #Copy necessary files to avoid errors with not yet installed tools on
         #installroot directory.
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/etc' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/usr/bin %s/usr/sbin' % (rootpath, rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('ln -sf -r %s/usr/bin %s/bin'  % (rootpath, rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('ln -sf -r %s/usr/sbin %s/sbin'  % (rootpath, rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/dev' % rootpath, 1500)
+        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/etc' % rootpath)
+        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/usr/bin %s/usr/sbin' % (rootpath, rootpath))
+        self.target.run('ln -sf usr/bin %s/bin'  % (rootpath))
+        self.target.run('ln -sf usr/sbin %s/sbin'  % (rootpath))
+        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/dev' % rootpath)
         #Handle different architectures lib dirs
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/usr/lib' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/usr/libx32' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('mkdir -p %s/usr/lib64' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp /lib/libtinfo.so.5 %s/usr/lib' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp /libx32/libtinfo.so.5 %s/usr/libx32' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 %s/usr/lib64' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('ln -sf -r %s/lib %s/usr/lib' % (rootpath,rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('ln -sf -r %s/libx32 %s/usr/libx32' % (rootpath,rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('ln -sf -r %s/lib64 %s/usr/lib64' % (rootpath,rootpath), 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp -r /etc/rpm %s/etc' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp -r /etc/dnf %s/etc' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('cp /bin/sh %s/bin' % rootpath, 1500)
-        self.target.run('mount -o bind /dev %s/dev/' % rootpath, 1500)
+        self.target.run("for l in /lib*; do mkdir -p %s/usr/$l; ln -s usr/$l %s/$l; done" % (rootpath, rootpath))
+        self.target.run('cp -r /etc/rpm %s/etc' % rootpath)
+        self.target.run('cp -r /etc/dnf %s/etc' % rootpath)
+        self.target.run('cp /bin/busybox %s/bin/sh' % rootpath)
+        self.target.run('mount -o bind /dev %s/dev/' % rootpath)
         self.dnf_with_repo('install --installroot=%s -v -y --rpmverbosity=debug busybox' % rootpath)
-        status, output = self.target.run('test -e %s/var/cache/dnf' % rootpath, 1500)
+        status, output = self.target.run('test -e %s/var/cache/dnf' % rootpath)
         self.assertEqual(0, status, output)
-        status, output = self.target.run('test -e %s/bin/busybox' % rootpath, 1500)
+        status, output = self.target.run('test -e %s/bin/busybox' % rootpath)
         self.assertEqual(0, status, output)
 
     @OETestDepends(['dnf.DnfRepoTest.test_dnf_makecache'])
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
index 967b44175f..f72460e7f3 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ping.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #
 
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+from time import sleep
 
 from oeqa.runtime.case import OERuntimeTestCase
 from oeqa.core.decorator.oetimeout import OETimeout
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
     def test_ping(self):
         output = ''
         count = 0
+        self.assertNotEqual(len(self.target.ip), 0, msg="No target IP address set")
         try:
             while count < 5:
                 cmd = 'ping -c 1 %s' % self.target.ip
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ class PingTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
                     count += 1
                 else:
                     count = 0
+                    sleep(1)
         except OEQATimeoutError:
             self.fail("Ping timeout error for address %s, count %s, output: %s" % (self.target.ip, count, output))
         msg = ('Expected 5 consecutive, got %d.\n'
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm.py
index e3cd818b2b..fa86eb0537 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rpm.py
@@ -51,21 +51,20 @@ class RpmBasicTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
             msg = 'status: %s. Cannot run rpm -qa: %s' % (status, output)
             self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg=msg)
 
-        def check_no_process_for_user(u):
-            _, output = self.target.run(self.tc.target_cmds['ps'])
-            if u + ' ' in output:
-                return False
-            else:
-                return True
+        def wait_for_no_process_for_user(u, timeout = 120):
+            timeout_at = time.time() + timeout
+            while time.time() < timeout_at:
+                _, output = self.target.run(self.tc.target_cmds['ps'])
+                if u + ' ' not in output:
+                    return
+                time.sleep(1)
+            user_pss = [ps for ps in output.split("\n") if u + ' ' in ps]
+            msg = "There're %s 's process(es) still running: %s".format(u, "\n".join(user_pss))
+            assertTrue(True, msg=msg)
 
         def unset_up_test_user(u):
             # ensure no test1 process in running
-            timeout = time.time() + 30
-            while time.time() < timeout:
-                if check_no_process_for_user(u):
-                    break
-                else:
-                    time.sleep(1)
+            wait_for_no_process_for_user(u)
             status, output = self.target.run('userdel -r %s' % u)
             msg = 'Failed to erase user: %s' % output
             self.assertTrue(status == 0, msg=msg)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rtc.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rtc.py
index b2159b1134..6e45c5db4f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rtc.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/rtc.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #
 from oeqa.runtime.case import OERuntimeTestCase
 from oeqa.core.decorator.depends import OETestDepends
+from oeqa.core.decorator.data import skipIfFeature
 from oeqa.runtime.decorator.package import OEHasPackage
 
 import re
@@ -21,12 +22,14 @@ class RTCTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
             self.logger.debug('Starting systemd-timesyncd daemon')
             self.target.run('systemctl enable --now --runtime systemd-timesyncd')
 
+    @skipIfFeature('read-only-rootfs',
+                   'Test does not work with read-only-rootfs in IMAGE_FEATURES')
     @OETestDepends(['ssh.SSHTest.test_ssh'])
     @OEHasPackage(['coreutils', 'busybox'])
     def test_rtc(self):
         (status, output) = self.target.run('hwclock -r')
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='Failed to get RTC time, output: %s' % output)
-        
+
         (status, current_datetime) = self.target.run('date +"%m%d%H%M%Y"')
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='Failed to get system current date & time, output: %s' % current_datetime)
 
@@ -37,7 +40,6 @@ class RTCTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
         (status, output) = self.target.run('date %s' % current_datetime)
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='Failed to reset system date & time, output: %s' % output)
-        
+
         (status, output) = self.target.run('hwclock -w')
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='Failed to reset RTC time, output: %s' % output)
-        
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
index 720b4b517a..37f295492d 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class SystemdJournalTests(SystemdTest):
         """
 
         # The expression chain that uniquely identifies the time boot message.
-        expr_items=['Startup finished', 'kernel', 'userspace','\.$']
+        expr_items=['Startup finished', 'kernel', 'userspace', r'\.$']
         try:
             output = self.journalctl(args='-o cat --reverse')
         except AssertionError:
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
index 8092dd0bae..0c5d1869ab 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ class OERuntimeTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
                 % self.default_target_type)
         runtime_group.add_argument('--target-ip', action='store',
                 default=self.default_target_ip,
-                help="IP address of device under test, default: %s" \
+                help="IP address and optionally ssh port (default 22) of device under test, for example '192.168.0.7:22'. Default: %s" \
                 % self.default_target_ip)
         runtime_group.add_argument('--server-ip', action='store',
                 default=self.default_target_ip,
-                help="IP address of device under test, default: %s" \
+                help="IP address of the test host from test target machine, default: %s" \
                 % self.default_server_ip)
 
         runtime_group.add_argument('--host-dumper-dir', action='store',
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py
index ee515be188..147ee3e0ee 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class EpoxyTest(OESDKTestCase):
             self.assertTrue(os.path.isdir(dirs["source"]))
             os.makedirs(dirs["build"])
 
-            log = self._run("meson -Degl=no -Dglx=no -Dx11=false {build} {source}".format(**dirs))
+            log = self._run("meson --warnlevel 1 -Degl=no -Dglx=no -Dx11=false {build} {source}".format(**dirs))
             # Check that Meson thinks we're doing a cross build and not a native
             self.assertIn("Build type: cross build", log)
             self._run("ninja -C {build} -v".format(**dirs))
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
index a5c6a76e02..5ffb732556 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class SdkUpdateTest(OESDKExtTestCase):
         cmd = 'oe-publish-sdk %s %s' % (tcname_new, self.publish_dir)
         subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
 
-        self.http_service = HTTPService(self.publish_dir)
+        self.http_service = HTTPService(self.publish_dir, logger=self.logger)
         self.http_service.start()
 
         self.http_url = "http://127.0.0.1:%d" % self.http_service.port
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
index ac47af1990..9534c9775c 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
@@ -54,6 +54,25 @@ class CVECheck(OESelftestTestCase):
         self.assertTrue( result ,msg="Failed to compare version with suffix '1.0_patch2' < '1.0_patch3'")
 
 
+    def test_convert_cve_version(self):
+        from oe.cve_check import convert_cve_version
+
+        # Default format
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("8.3"), "8.3")
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version(""), "")
+
+        # OpenSSL format version
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("1.1.1t"), "1.1.1t")
+
+        # OpenSSH format
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("8.3_p1"), "8.3p1")
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("8.3_p22"), "8.3p22")
+
+        # Linux kernel format
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("6.2_rc8"), "6.2-rc8")
+        self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("6.2_rc31"), "6.2-rc31")
+
+
     def test_recipe_report_json(self):
         config = """
 INHERIT += "cve-check"
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
index 3c40119282..37f51760fb 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
@@ -12,6 +12,36 @@ from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var, runqemu
 
 
 class Debuginfod(OESelftestTestCase):
+
+    def wait_for_debuginfod(self, port):
+        """
+        debuginfod takes time to scan the packages and requesting too early may
+        result in a test failure if the right packages haven't been scanned yet.
+
+        Request the metrics endpoint periodically and wait for there to be no
+        busy scanning threads.
+
+        Returns True if debuginfod is ready, False if we timed out
+        """
+        import time, urllib
+
+        # Wait a minute
+        countdown = 6
+        delay = 10
+
+        while countdown:
+            time.sleep(delay)
+            try:
+                with urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:%d/metrics" % port) as f:
+                    lines = f.read().decode("ascii").splitlines()
+                    if "thread_busy{role=\"scan\"} 0" in lines:
+                        return True
+            except urllib.error.URLError as e:
+                self.logger.error(e)
+            countdown -= 1
+        return False
+
+
     def test_debuginfod(self):
         self.write_config(
             """
@@ -25,29 +55,50 @@ CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "elfutils"
         cmd = [
             os.path.join(native_sysroot, "usr", "bin", "debuginfod"),
             "--verbose",
+            # In-memory database, this is a one-shot test
             "--database=:memory:",
+            # Don't use all the host cores
+            "--concurrency=8",
+            "--connection-pool=8",
+            # Disable rescanning, this is a one-shot test
+            "--rescan-time=0",
+            "--groom-time=0",
             get_bb_var("DEPLOY_DIR"),
         ]
-        for format in get_bb_var("PACKAGE_CLASSES").split():
-            if format == "package_deb":
-                cmd.append("--scan-deb-dir")
-            elif format == "package_ipk":
-                cmd.append("--scan-deb-dir")
-            elif format == "package_rpm":
-                cmd.append("--scan-rpm-dir")
+
+        format = get_bb_var("PACKAGE_CLASSES").split()[0]
+        if format == "package_deb":
+            cmd.append("--scan-deb-dir")
+        elif format == "package_ipk":
+            cmd.append("--scan-deb-dir")
+        elif format == "package_rpm":
+            cmd.append("--scan-rpm-dir")
+        else:
+            self.fail("Unknown package class %s" % format)
+
         # Find a free port
         with socketserver.TCPServer(("localhost", 0), None) as s:
             port = s.server_address[1]
             cmd.append("--port=%d" % port)
 
         try:
-            debuginfod = subprocess.Popen(cmd)
+            # Remove DEBUGINFOD_URLS from the environment so we don't try
+            # looking in the distro debuginfod
+            env = os.environ.copy()
+            if "DEBUGINFOD_URLS" in env:
+                del env["DEBUGINFOD_URLS"]
+
+            self.logger.info(f"Starting server {cmd}")
+            debuginfod = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=env)
 
             with runqemu("core-image-minimal", runqemuparams="nographic") as qemu:
+                self.assertTrue(self.wait_for_debuginfod(port))
+
                 cmd = (
                     "DEBUGINFOD_URLS=http://%s:%d/ debuginfod-find debuginfo /usr/bin/debuginfod"
                     % (qemu.server_ip, port)
                 )
+                self.logger.info(f"Starting client {cmd}")
                 status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
                 # This should be more comprehensive
                 self.assertIn("/.cache/debuginfod_client/", output)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 142932e12f..877d77d488 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ class DevtoolBase(DevtoolTestCase):
         cls.sstate_conf  = 'SSTATE_DIR = "%s"\n' % cls.devtool_sstate
         cls.sstate_conf += ('SSTATE_MIRRORS += "file://.* file:///%s/PATH"\n'
                             % cls.original_sstate)
+        cls.sstate_conf += ('BB_HASHSERVE_UPSTREAM = "hashserv.yocto.io:8687"\n')
 
     @classmethod
     def tearDownClass(cls):
@@ -954,7 +955,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
 
     def test_devtool_update_recipe_git(self):
         # Check preconditions
-        testrecipe = 'mtd-utils'
+        testrecipe = 'mtd-utils-selftest'
         bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['FILE', 'SRC_URI'], testrecipe)
         recipefile = bb_vars['FILE']
         src_uri = bb_vars['SRC_URI']
@@ -1075,7 +1076,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
 
     def test_devtool_update_recipe_append_git(self):
         # Check preconditions
-        testrecipe = 'mtd-utils'
+        testrecipe = 'mtd-utils-selftest'
         bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['FILE', 'SRC_URI'], testrecipe)
         recipefile = bb_vars['FILE']
         src_uri = bb_vars['SRC_URI']
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/externalsrc.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/externalsrc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d800dc82c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/externalsrc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+from oeqa.utils.commands import get_bb_var, runCmd
+
+class ExternalSrc(OESelftestTestCase):
+    # test that srctree_hash_files does not crash
+    # we should be actually checking do_compile[file-checksums] but oeqa currently does not support it
+    #     so we check only that a recipe with externalsrc can be parsed
+    def test_externalsrc_srctree_hash_files(self):
+        test_recipe = "git-submodule-test"
+        git_url = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/git-submodule-test"
+        externalsrc_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="externalsrc").name
+
+        self.write_config(
+            """
+INHERIT += "externalsrc"
+EXTERNALSRC:pn-%s = "%s"
+""" % (test_recipe, externalsrc_dir)
+        )
+
+        # test with git without submodules
+        runCmd('git clone %s %s' % (git_url, externalsrc_dir))
+        os.unlink(externalsrc_dir + "/.gitmodules")
+        open(".gitmodules", 'w').close()  # local file .gitmodules in cwd should not affect externalsrc parsing
+        self.assertEqual(get_bb_var("S", test_recipe), externalsrc_dir, msg = "S does not equal to EXTERNALSRC")
+        os.unlink(".gitmodules")
+
+        # test with git with submodules
+        runCmd('git checkout .gitmodules', cwd=externalsrc_dir)
+        runCmd('git submodule update --init --recursive', cwd=externalsrc_dir)
+        self.assertEqual(get_bb_var("S", test_recipe), externalsrc_dir, msg = "S does not equal to EXTERNALSRC")
+
+        # test without git
+        shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(externalsrc_dir, ".git"))
+        self.assertEqual(get_bb_var("S", test_recipe), externalsrc_dir, msg = "S does not equal to EXTERNALSRC")
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/lic_checksum.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/lic_checksum.py
index 5897a396d9..2d0b805b90 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/lic_checksum.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/lic_checksum.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://%s;md5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
 SRC_URI = "file://%s;md5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
 """ % (urllib.parse.quote(lic_path), urllib.parse.quote(lic_path)))
         result = bitbake(bitbake_cmd)
+        self.delete_recipeinc('emptytest')
 
 
     # Verify that changing a license file that has an absolute path causes
@@ -53,5 +54,6 @@ SRC_URI = "file://%s;md5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
             f.write("data")
 
         result = bitbake(bitbake_cmd, ignore_status=True)
+        self.delete_recipeinc('emptytest')
         if error_msg not in result.output:
             raise AssertionError(result.output)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..433991abf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+from oeqa.core.decorator import OETestTag
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu
+
+class LocalesTest(OESelftestTestCase):
+
+    @OETestTag("runqemu")
+    def test_locales_on(self):
+        """
+        Summary: Test the locales are generated
+        Expected: 1. Check the locale exist in the locale-archive
+                  2. Check the locale exist for the glibc
+                  3. Check the locale can be generated
+        Product: oe-core
+        Author: Louis Rannou <lrannou@baylibre.com>
+        AutomatedBy: Louis Rannou <lrannou@baylibre.com>
+        """
+
+        features = []
+        features.append('EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "empty-root-password allow-empty-password allow-root-login"')
+        features.append('IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " glibc-utils localedef"')
+        features.append('GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES = "en_US.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8"')
+        features.append('IMAGE_LINGUAS:append = " en-us fr-fr"')
+        features.append('ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "1"')
+        self.write_config("\n".join(features))
+
+        # Build a core-image-minimal
+        bitbake('core-image-minimal')
+
+        with runqemu("core-image-minimal", ssh=False, runqemuparams='nographic') as qemu:
+            cmd = "locale -a"
+            status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+            # output must includes fr_FR or fr_FR.UTF-8
+            self.assertEqual(status, 1, msg='locale test command failed: output: %s' % output)
+            self.assertIn("fr_FR", output, msg='locale -a test failed: output: %s' % output)
+
+            cmd = "localedef --list-archive -v"
+            status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+            # output must includes fr_FR.utf8
+            self.assertEqual(status, 1, msg='localedef test command failed: output: %s' % output)
+            self.assertIn("fr_FR.utf8", output, msg='localedef test failed: output: %s' % output)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
index 2d1b48a15d..cc09a1442d 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ class VersionOrdering(OESelftestTestCase):
             self.assertEqual(status - 100, sort, "%s %s (%d) failed" % (ver1, ver2, sort))
 
 class PackageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
+    # Verify that a recipe cannot rename a package into an existing one
+    def test_package_name_conflict(self):
+        res = bitbake("packagenameconflict", ignore_status=True)
+        self.assertNotEqual(res.status, 0)
+        err = "package name already exists"
+        self.assertTrue(err in res.output)
+
     # Verify that a recipe which sets up hardlink files has those preserved into split packages
     # Also test file sparseness is preserved
     def test_preserve_sparse_hardlinks(self):
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/prservice.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/prservice.py
index cb95503c2c..9fe3b80a31 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/prservice.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/prservice.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class BitbakePrTests(OESelftestTestCase):
         exported_db_path = os.path.join(self.builddir, 'export.inc')
         export_result = runCmd("bitbake-prserv-tool export %s" % exported_db_path, ignore_status=True)
         self.assertEqual(export_result.status, 0, msg="PR Service database export failed: %s" % export_result.output)
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(exported_db_path))
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(exported_db_path), msg="%s didn't exist, tool output %s" % (exported_db_path, export_result.output))
 
         if replace_current_db:
             current_db_path = os.path.join(get_bb_var('PERSISTENT_DIR'), 'prserv.sqlite3')
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
index 25b06cdcf0..b193f0f5c8 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
@@ -581,7 +581,10 @@ class RecipetoolTests(RecipetoolBase):
 
         commonlicdir = get_bb_var('COMMON_LICENSE_DIR')
 
-        d = bb.tinfoil.TinfoilDataStoreConnector
+        class DataConnectorCopy(bb.tinfoil.TinfoilDataStoreConnector):
+            pass
+
+        d = DataConnectorCopy
         d.getVar = Mock(return_value=commonlicdir)
 
         srctree = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='recipetoolqa')
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
index f4dd779842..cd7aa8aafa 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
@@ -292,9 +292,13 @@ class ReproducibleTests(OESelftestTestCase):
                         self.copy_file(d.reference, '/'.join([save_dir, 'packages-excluded', strip_topdir(d.reference)]))
                         self.copy_file(d.test, '/'.join([save_dir, 'packages-excluded', strip_topdir(d.test)]))
 
-                if result.missing or result.different:
-                    fails.append("The following %s packages are missing or different and not in exclusion list: %s" %
-                            (c, '\n'.join(r.test for r in (result.missing + result.different))))
+                if result.different:
+                    fails.append("The following %s packages are different and not in exclusion list:\n%s" %
+                            (c, '\n'.join(r.test for r in (result.different))))
+
+                if result.missing and len(self.sstate_targets) == 0:
+                    fails.append("The following %s packages are missing and not in exclusion list:\n%s" %
+                            (c, '\n'.join(r.test for r in (result.missing))))
 
         # Clean up empty directories
         if self.save_results:
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/resulttooltests.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/resulttooltests.py
index c2e76f1a44..efdfd98af3 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/resulttooltests.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/resulttooltests.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class ResultToolTests(OESelftestTestCase):
         self.assertTrue('target_result1' in results['runtime/mydistro/qemux86/image'], msg="Pair not correct:%s" % results)
         self.assertTrue('target_result3' in results['runtime/mydistro/qemux86-64/image'], msg="Pair not correct:%s" % results)
 
-    def test_regrresion_can_get_regression_result(self):
+    def test_regression_can_get_regression_result(self):
         base_result_data = {'result': {'test1': {'status': 'PASSED'},
                                        'test2': {'status': 'PASSED'},
                                        'test3': {'status': 'FAILED'},
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
index c1d277a095..d3eeee3b41 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
+import os
 import re
-import tempfile
 import time
 import oe.types
 from oeqa.core.decorator import OETestTag
 from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
-from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu, get_bb_var, runCmd
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu, get_bb_var
 
 @OETestTag("runqemu")
 class RunqemuTests(OESelftestTestCase):
@@ -57,14 +57,16 @@ SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT = "10"
         cmd = "%s %s ext4" % (self.cmd_common, self.machine)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertIn('rootfs.ext4', f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                regexp = r'\nROOTFS: .*\.ext4]\n'
+                self.assertRegex(f.read(), regexp, "Failed to find '%s' in '%s' after running '%s'" % (regexp, qemu.qemurunnerlog, cmd))
 
     def test_boot_machine_iso(self):
         """Test runqemu machine iso"""
         cmd = "%s %s iso" % (self.cmd_common, self.machine)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertIn('media=cdrom', f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                text_in = 'media=cdrom'
+                self.assertIn(text_in, f.read(), "Failed to find '%s' in '%s' after running '%s'" % (text_in, qemu.qemurunnerlog, cmd))
 
     def test_boot_recipe_image(self):
         """Test runqemu recipe-image"""
@@ -79,14 +81,16 @@ SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT = "10"
         cmd = "%s %s wic.vmdk" % (self.cmd_common, self.recipe)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertIn('format=vmdk', f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                text_in = 'format=vmdk'
+                self.assertIn(text_in, f.read(), "Failed to find '%s' in '%s' after running '%s'" % (text_in, qemu.qemurunnerlog, cmd))
 
     def test_boot_recipe_image_vdi(self):
         """Test runqemu recipe-image vdi"""
         cmd = "%s %s wic.vdi" % (self.cmd_common, self.recipe)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertIn('format=vdi', f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                text_in = 'format=vdi'
+                self.assertIn(text_in, f.read(), "Failed to find '%s' in '%s' after running '%s'" % (text_in, qemu.qemurunnerlog, cmd))
 
     def test_boot_deploy(self):
         """Test runqemu deploy_dir_image"""
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
index fe83b248f3..533b5d7453 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ class TestImage(OESelftestTestCase):
         import subprocess, os
 
         distro = oe.lsb.distro_identifier()
-        if distro and (distro in ['debian-9', 'debian-10', 'centos-7', 'centos-8', 'ubuntu-16.04', 'ubuntu-18.04'] or distro.startswith('almalinux')):
+        if distro and (distro in ['debian-9', 'debian-10', 'centos-7', 'centos-8', 'ubuntu-16.04', 'ubuntu-18.04'] or
+            distro.startswith('almalinux') or distro.startswith('rocky')):
             self.skipTest('virgl headless cannot be tested with %s' %(distro))
 
         render_hint = """If /dev/dri/renderD* is absent due to lack of suitable GPU, 'modprobe vgem' will create one suitable for mesa llvmpipe software renderer."""
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ class TestImage(OESelftestTestCase):
         except FileNotFoundError:
             self.fail("/dev/dri directory does not exist; no render nodes available on this machine. %s" %(render_hint))
         try:
-            dripath = subprocess.check_output("pkg-config --variable=dridriverdir dri", shell=True)
+            dripath = subprocess.check_output("PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH pkg-config --variable=dridriverdir dri", shell=True)
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
             self.fail("Could not determine the path to dri drivers on the host via pkg-config.\nPlease install Mesa development files (particularly, dri.pc) on the host machine.")
         qemu_distrofeatures = get_bb_var('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'qemu-system-native')
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/tinfoil.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/tinfoil.py
index 0a66615fd1..dd13c20402 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/tinfoil.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/tinfoil.py
@@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ class TinfoilTests(OESelftestTestCase):
             localdata.setVar('PN', 'hello')
             self.assertEqual('hello', localdata.getVar('BPN'))
 
+    # The config_data API tp parse_recipe_file is used by:
+    # layerindex-web layerindex/update_layer.py
+    def test_parse_recipe_custom_data(self):
+        with bb.tinfoil.Tinfoil() as tinfoil:
+            tinfoil.prepare(config_only=False, quiet=2)
+            localdata = bb.data.createCopy(tinfoil.config_data)
+            localdata.setVar("TESTVAR", "testval")
+            testrecipe = 'mdadm'
+            best = tinfoil.find_best_provider(testrecipe)
+            if not best:
+                self.fail('Unable to find recipe providing %s' % testrecipe)
+            rd = tinfoil.parse_recipe_file(best[3], config_data=localdata)
+            self.assertEqual("testval", rd.getVar('TESTVAR'))
+
     def test_list_recipes(self):
         with bb.tinfoil.Tinfoil() as tinfoil:
             tinfoil.prepare(config_only=False, quiet=2)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
index 78c7a467e2..0e3244a1c5 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
@@ -86,17 +86,27 @@ class OESelftestTestContext(OETestContext):
         oe.path.copytree(builddir + "/cache", newbuilddir + "/cache")
         oe.path.copytree(selftestdir, newselftestdir)
 
+        subprocess.check_output("git init; git add *; git commit -a -m 'initial'", cwd=newselftestdir, shell=True)
+
+        # Tried to used bitbake-layers add/remove but it requires recipe parsing and hence is too slow
+        subprocess.check_output("sed %s/conf/bblayers.conf -i -e 's#%s#%s#g'" % (newbuilddir, selftestdir, newselftestdir), cwd=newbuilddir, shell=True)
+
+        # Relative paths in BBLAYERS only works when the new build dir share the same ascending node
+        if self.newbuilddir:
+            bblayers = subprocess.check_output("bitbake-getvar --value BBLAYERS | tail -1", cwd=builddir, shell=True, text=True)
+            if '..' in bblayers:
+                bblayers_abspath = [os.path.abspath(path) for path in bblayers.split()]
+                with open("%s/conf/bblayers.conf" % newbuilddir, "a") as f:
+                    newbblayers = "# new bblayers to be used by selftest in the new build dir '%s'\n" % newbuilddir
+                    newbblayers += 'BBLAYERS = "%s"\n' % ' '.join(bblayers_abspath)
+                    f.write(newbblayers)
+
         for e in os.environ:
             if builddir + "/" in os.environ[e]:
                 os.environ[e] = os.environ[e].replace(builddir + "/", newbuilddir + "/")
             if os.environ[e].endswith(builddir):
                 os.environ[e] = os.environ[e].replace(builddir, newbuilddir)
 
-        subprocess.check_output("git init; git add *; git commit -a -m 'initial'", cwd=newselftestdir, shell=True)
-
-        # Tried to used bitbake-layers add/remove but it requires recipe parsing and hence is too slow
-        subprocess.check_output("sed %s/conf/bblayers.conf -i -e 's#%s#%s#g'" % (newbuilddir, selftestdir, newselftestdir), cwd=newbuilddir, shell=True)
-
         os.chdir(newbuilddir)
 
         def patch_test(t):
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/targetcontrol.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/targetcontrol.py
index 1fdff82889..f5f2ce2f12 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/targetcontrol.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/targetcontrol.py
@@ -7,18 +7,14 @@
 # This module is used by testimage.bbclass for setting up and controlling a target machine.
 
 import os
-import shutil
 import subprocess
 import bb
-import traceback
-import sys
 import logging
 from oeqa.utils.sshcontrol import SSHControl
 from oeqa.utils.qemurunner import QemuRunner
 from oeqa.utils.qemutinyrunner import QemuTinyRunner
 from oeqa.utils.dump import TargetDumper
 from oeqa.utils.dump import MonitorDumper
-from oeqa.controllers.testtargetloader import TestTargetLoader
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 
 class BaseTarget(object, metaclass=ABCMeta):
@@ -145,7 +141,7 @@ class QemuTarget(BaseTarget):
                             boottime = int(d.getVar("TEST_QEMUBOOT_TIMEOUT")),
                             use_kvm = use_kvm,
                             dump_dir = dump_dir,
-                            dump_host_cmds = d.getVar("testimage_dump_host"),
+                            dump_host_cmds = dump_host_cmds,
                             logger = logger,
                             tmpfsdir = d.getVar("RUNQEMU_TMPFS_DIR"),
                             serial_ports = len(d.getVar("SERIAL_CONSOLES").split()))
@@ -205,7 +201,7 @@ class QemuTarget(BaseTarget):
             self.server_ip = self.runner.server_ip
             self.connection = SSHControl(ip=self.ip, logfile=self.sshlog)
         else:
-            raise RuntimError("%s - FAILED to re-start qemu - check the task log and the boot log" % self.pn)
+            raise RuntimeError("%s - FAILED to re-start qemu - check the task log and the boot log" % self.pn)
 
     def run_serial(self, command, timeout=60):
         return self.runner.run_serial(command, timeout=timeout)
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
index f733fcdf3c..473aa38d41 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
@@ -8,11 +8,8 @@
 # This module is mainly used by scripts/oe-selftest and modules under meta/oeqa/selftest
 # It provides a class and methods for running commands on the host in a convienent way for tests.
 
-
-
 import os
 import sys
-import signal
 import subprocess
 import threading
 import time
@@ -21,6 +18,7 @@ from oeqa.utils import CommandError
 from oeqa.utils import ftools
 import re
 import contextlib
+import errno
 # Export test doesn't require bb
 try:
     import bb
@@ -85,7 +83,7 @@ class Command(object):
             except OSError as ex:
                 # It's not an error when the command does not consume all
                 # of our data. subprocess.communicate() also ignores that.
-                if ex.errno != EPIPE:
+                if ex.errno != errno.EPIPE:
                     raise
 
         # We write in a separate thread because then we can read
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/dump.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/dump.py
index bcee03b576..d420b497f9 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/dump.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/dump.py
@@ -93,37 +93,55 @@ class HostDumper(BaseDumper):
             self._write_dump(cmd.split()[0], result.output)
 
 class TargetDumper(BaseDumper):
-    """ Class to get dumps from target, it only works with QemuRunner """
+    """ Class to get dumps from target, it only works with QemuRunner.
+        Will give up permanently after 5 errors from running commands over
+        serial console. This helps to end testing when target is really dead, hanging
+        or unresponsive.
+    """
 
     def __init__(self, cmds, parent_dir, runner):
         super(TargetDumper, self).__init__(cmds, parent_dir)
         self.runner = runner
+        self.errors = 0
 
     def dump_target(self, dump_dir=""):
+        if self.errors >= 5:
+                print("Too many errors when dumping data from target, assuming it is dead! Will not dump data anymore!")
+                return
         if dump_dir:
             self.dump_dir = dump_dir
         for cmd in self.cmds:
             # We can continue with the testing if serial commands fail
             try:
                 (status, output) = self.runner.run_serial(cmd)
+                if status == 0:
+                    self.errors = self.errors + 1
                 self._write_dump(cmd.split()[0], output)
             except:
+                self.errors = self.errors + 1
                 print("Tried to dump info from target but "
                         "serial console failed")
                 print("Failed CMD: %s" % (cmd))
 
 class MonitorDumper(BaseDumper):
-    """ Class to get dumps via the Qemu Monitor, it only works with QemuRunner """
+    """ Class to get dumps via the Qemu Monitor, it only works with QemuRunner
+        Will stop completely if there are more than 5 errors when dumping monitor data.
+        This helps to end testing when target is really dead, hanging or unresponsive.
+    """
 
     def __init__(self, cmds, parent_dir, runner):
         super(MonitorDumper, self).__init__(cmds, parent_dir)
         self.runner = runner
+        self.errors = 0
 
     def dump_monitor(self, dump_dir=""):
         if self.runner is None:
             return
         if dump_dir:
             self.dump_dir = dump_dir
+        if self.errors >= 5:
+                print("Too many errors when dumping data from qemu monitor, assuming it is dead! Will not dump data anymore!")
+                return
         for cmd in self.cmds:
             cmd_name = cmd.split()[0]
             try:
@@ -137,4 +155,5 @@ class MonitorDumper(BaseDumper):
                     output = self.runner.run_monitor(cmd_name)
                 self._write_dump(cmd_name, output)
             except Exception as e:
+                self.errors = self.errors + 1
                 print("Failed to dump QMP CMD: %s with\nException: %s" % (cmd_name, e))
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/httpserver.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/httpserver.py
index 8ce1dd42f4..5860b0a383 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/httpserver.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/httpserver.py
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ class HTTPService(object):
             self.port = self.server.server_port
         self.process = multiprocessing.Process(target=self.server.server_start, args=[self.root_dir, self.logger])
 
+        def handle_error(self, request, client_address):
+            import traceback
+            exception = traceback.format_exc()
+            self.logger.warn("Exception when handling %s: %s" % (request, exception))
+        self.server.handle_error = handle_error
+
         # The signal handler from testimage.bbclass can cause deadlocks here
         # if the HTTPServer is terminated before it can restore the standard 
         #signal behaviour
diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index 6a85f57e49..a455b3b389 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
         qmp_file = "." + next(tempfile._get_candidate_names())
         qmp_param = ' -S -qmp unix:./%s,server,wait' % (qmp_file)
         qmp_port = self.tmpdir + "/" + qmp_file
-        # Create a second socket connection for debugging use, 
+        # Create a second socket connection for debugging use,
         # note this will NOT cause qemu to block waiting for the connection
         qmp_file2 = "." + next(tempfile._get_candidate_names())
         qmp_param += ' -qmp unix:./%s,server,nowait' % (qmp_file2)
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ class QemuRunner:
                     return False
 
             try:
+                # set timeout value for all QMP calls
+                self.qmp.settimeout(self.runqemutime)
                 self.qmp.connect()
                 connect_time = time.time()
                 self.logger.info("QMP connected to QEMU at %s and took %s seconds" %
@@ -463,6 +465,8 @@ class QemuRunner:
                     socklist.remove(self.server_socket)
                     self.logger.debug("Connection from %s:%s" % addr)
                 else:
+                    # try to avoid reading only a single character at a time
+                    time.sleep(0.1)
                     data = data + sock.recv(1024)
                     if data:
                         bootlog += data
@@ -507,7 +511,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
             (status, output) = self.run_serial(self.boot_patterns['send_login_user'], raw=True, timeout=120)
             if re.search(self.boot_patterns['search_login_succeeded'], output):
                 self.logged = True
-                self.logger.debug("Logged as root in serial console")
+                self.logger.debug("Logged in as %s in serial console" % self.boot_patterns['send_login_user'].replace("\n", ""))
                 if netconf:
                     # configure guest networking
                     cmd = "ifconfig eth0 %s netmask %s up\n" % (self.ip, self.netmask)
@@ -518,7 +522,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
                         self.logger.debug("Couldn't configure guest networking")
             else:
                 self.logger.warning("Couldn't login into serial console"
-                            " as root using blank password")
+                            " as %s using blank password" % self.boot_patterns['send_login_user'].replace("\n", ""))
                 self.logger.warning("The output:\n%s" % output)
         except:
             self.logger.warning("Serial console failed while trying to login")
@@ -538,10 +542,13 @@ class QemuRunner:
                 except OSError as e:
                     if e.errno != errno.ESRCH:
                         raise
-            endtime = time.time() + self.runqemutime
-            while self.runqemu.poll() is None and time.time() < endtime:
-                time.sleep(1)
-            if self.runqemu.poll() is None:
+            try:
+                outs, errs = self.runqemu.communicate(timeout = self.runqemutime)
+                if outs:
+                    self.logger.info("Output from runqemu:\n%s", outs.decode("utf-8"))
+                if errs:
+                    self.logger.info("Stderr from runqemu:\n%s", errs.decode("utf-8"))
+            except TimeoutExpired:
                 self.logger.debug("Sending SIGKILL to runqemu")
                 os.killpg(os.getpgid(self.runqemu.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
             if not self.runqemu.stdout.closed:
@@ -618,6 +625,7 @@ class QemuRunner:
 
     def run_monitor(self, command, args=None, timeout=60):
         if hasattr(self, 'qmp') and self.qmp:
+            self.qmp.settimeout(timeout)
             if args is not None:
                 return self.qmp.cmd(command, args)
             else:
@@ -645,6 +653,8 @@ class QemuRunner:
             except InterruptedError:
                 continue
             if sread:
+                # try to avoid reading single character at a time
+                time.sleep(0.1)
                 answer = self.server_socket.recv(1024)
                 if answer:
                     data += answer.decode('utf-8')