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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 09:37:43 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] lib: introduce test_meminit module
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 05:51:17PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:02 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > > Add tests for heap and pagealloc initialization.
> > > These can be used to check init_on_alloc and init_on_free implementations
> > > as well as other approaches to initialization.
> >
> > This is nice! Easy way to test the results. It might be helpful to show
> > here what to expect when loading this module:
>
> Do you want me to add the expected output to the patch description?

Yes, I think it's worth having, as a way to show people what to expect
when running the test, without having to actually enable, build, and
run it themselves.

-- 
Kees Cook