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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 00:30:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202005080029.538E27C@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508065356.2493343-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:53:55PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It is Very Rude to clear dmesg in test scripts. That's because the
> script may be part of a larger test run, and clearing dmesg
> potentially destroys the output of other tests.
> 
> We can avoid using dmesg -c by saving the content of dmesg before the
> test, and then using diff to compare that to the dmesg afterward,
> producing a log with just the added lines.

Sounds good to me!

> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08  6:53 [PATCH 1/2] selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests Michael Ellerman
2020-05-08  6:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/lkdtm: Use grep -E instead of egrep Michael Ellerman
2020-05-08  7:30   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-08  7:30 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-06-22  8:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-24  3:48   ` Joe Lawrence
2020-06-24  8:39     ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-24 20:12       ` Joe Lawrence
2020-06-26  8:02         ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-26 13:38           ` Joe Lawrence
2020-06-26 15:51             ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-25  6:16   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-26 15:50     ` Naresh Kamboju

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