Re: [PATCH v2] kunit: Taint kernel if any tests run

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 11:22:38AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 11:00:19AM +0800, David Gow wrote:
> > KUnit tests are not supposed to run on production systems: they may do
> > deliberately illegal things to trigger errors, and have security
> > implications (assertions will often deliberately leak kernel addresses).
> > 
> > Add a new taint type, TAINT_KUNIT to signal that a KUnit test has been
> > run. This will be printed as 'N' (for kuNit, as K, U and T were already
> > taken).
> > 
> > This should discourage people from running KUnit tests on production
> > systems, and to make it easier to tell if tests have been run
> > accidentally (by loading the wrong configuration, etc.)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
> 
> There is no reason to distinguish kunit from selftests if the result is
> the same: really make the kernel try really insane stupid things which
> may crash it or put it into a bad state.
> 
> So no, this should be renamed to "TEST_BREAK" as I think outside of
> selftest and kunit we may grow the kernel to do stupid things outside
> of that domain and this gives us the flexilibilty to use that in other
> places as well.
> 
> It begs the question if we *should* allow userspace to volunterally say
> "hey, we are doing really insane things, brace yourself." Why ? Well
> because selftest has tons of modules. We either then define a macro
> that adds the taint for them and wrap the module declaration for it,
> or we expose a syctl to let userspace volunteer to opt-in to seggest
> we are about to try something stupid with the kernel including loading
> some dangeerous modules which may not have macros which taint the kernel.
> That would let selftest taint on *any* selftest. Because we can run all
> selftests or run one selftest.
> 
> Then, if such sysctl is exposed, maybe we should then also use this for
> example for blktests, fstests, fio tests, etc.

For got to expand to fsdevel and linux-block.

  Luis