Re: [PATCH ima-evm-utils] Add tests for MMAP_CHECK and MMAP_CHECK_REQPROT hooks

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 15:02 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 08:28 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > [Trimmed Cc list, since this is an ima-evm-utils discussion.  Adding
> > Petr.]
> > 
> > On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 08:57 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 17:25 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > > How do you tell the user that the patches need to be applied for the test to
> > > > succeed and not worry about it when the patches are not applied?
> > > 
> > > Uhm, I agree. I should at least write a comment as for EVM portable
> > > signatures, and maybe display a message in the test logs.
> > 
> > This is a generic problem that needs to be addressed.  FYI, LTP
> > addressed it by introducing "struct test_tag" in commit ca2c76990
> > ("lib: Add support for test tags").
> 
> One idea could be to list all the patches the group of tests is going
> to check, and add an argument to expect_pass and expect_fail to specify
> the indexes of patches required for the test. We print the required
> patches in an error message.

It's not clear to me what is meant by "group of tests".   Is this at
the granularity of the test - portable signatures, fsverity,
boot_aggregate, etc?  Or, is this at a new grouping of tests?

-- 
Mimi