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Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 18:01:30 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de, linux@weissschuh.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] selftests: harness: Provide global metadata
 pointer to allow clean teardown from selftest libraries
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In-Reply-To: <20260414-selftest-global-metadata-v1-0-fd223922bc57@google.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 11:07:47AM -0700, Ackerley Tng wrote:
> Would maintainers be open to having the kselftest harness expose a pointer
> to the metadata globally?

I would like this, yes. It's been a real pain sometimes having to pass
_metadata down into various deep helper functions.

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Kees Cook