My debian testing produces the following output for uname:
$ uname -r
3.14-2-amd64

and so:
$ set -- `uname -r | sed 's/\./ /g'`
$ echo $1
3
$ echo $2
14-2-amd64

this causes zdtm.sh to fail for me on line 293:
[ $1 -eq 3 -a $2 -ge 11 ] && return 0

because "14-2-amd64 -ge 11" is false.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Neuer <matthias.neuer@uni-ulm.de>
Reviewed-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>