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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, notify@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] lkdtm/stackleak: Make the stack erasing test more verbose
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:03:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001021402.EDBC5114D@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aae20dfa-4a55-9aaf-d2f9-3c83ed905f2e@linux.com>

On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:26:39AM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> On 31.12.2019 01:46, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 01:20:24AM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> >> On 30.12.2019 21:37, Kees Cook wrote:
> >>> Hi! I try to keep the "success" conditions for LKDTM tests to be a
> >>> system exception, so doing "BUG" on a failure is actually against the
> >>> design. So, really, a test harness needs to know to check dmesg for the
> >>> results here. It almost looks like this check shouldn't live in LKDTM,
> >>> but since it feels like other LKDTM tests, I'm happy to keep it there
> >>> for now.
> >>
> >> Do you mean that you will apply this patch?
> > 
> > Sorry for my confusing reply! I meant that I don't want to apply the
> > patch, but I'm find to leave the stackleak check in LKDTM.
> 
> Kees, I think I see a solution.
> 
> Would you agree if I use dump_stack() instead of BUG() in case of test failure?
> That would provide enough info for debugging and would NOT break your design.

I would be fine with that, yes! :)

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-02 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19 14:54 [PATCH v1 1/1] lkdtm/stackleak: Make the stack erasing test more verbose Alexander Popov
2019-12-28 20:20 ` Alexander Popov
2019-12-30 18:37 ` Kees Cook
2019-12-30 22:20   ` Alexander Popov
2019-12-30 22:46     ` Kees Cook
2020-01-01 23:26       ` Alexander Popov
2020-01-02 22:03         ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-01-02 22:37           ` Alexander Popov

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