[PATCH 5.9 251/757] selftests/lkdtm: Use "comm" instead of "diff" for dmesg

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-27T15:34:35Z

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

[ Upstream commit d00451c8118f8f7ab8e057bc6ee2f8b7d70b6a1c ]

Instead of full GNU diff (which smaller boot environments may not have),
use "comm" which is more available.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f131d9edc29d ("selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909211700.2399399-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
index 8383eb89d88a9..bb7a1775307b8 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ dmesg > "$DMESG"
($SHELL -c 'cat <(echo '"$test"') >'"$TRIGGER" 2>/dev/null) || true

# Record and dump the results
-dmesg | diff --changed-group-format='%>' --unchanged-group-format='' "$DMESG" - > "$LOG" || true
+dmesg | comm --nocheck-order -13 "$DMESG" - > "$LOG" || true

cat "$LOG"
# Check for expected output
--
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