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From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH] tst_taint: TCONF when kernel is alreay tainted
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:27 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <679691068.6290837.1571148027820.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190919100205.GA26642@rei>



----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > As the tst_taint_init comments described, If the tainted-flags are already
> > set
> > by the kernel, there is no reason to continue and TCONF is generated. But
> > in
> > the function achieve, it uses TBROK.
> > 
> >   cmdline="cve-2017-17053"
> >   tst_test.c:1096: INFO: Timeout per run is 0h 10m 00s
> >   tst_taint.c:88: BROK: Kernel is already tainted: 536871424
> 
> There is a reason for generating TBROK, we do not want the test to be
> skipped silently in this case.

It can still run and maybe trigger worse problem. IMO if test wants
to report taint flags it should only report _new_ taint flags.

We could add a dummy test to end of runtest file, which would check
selected taint flags and report WARN/FAIL, so they are guaranteed
to appear on report.

Regards,
Jan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-15 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18  5:35 [LTP] [RFC PATCH] tst_taint: TCONF when kernel is alreay tainted Li Wang
2019-09-18  5:56 ` Li Wang
2019-09-19 10:02 ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-09-20  3:00   ` Li Wang
2019-10-15 14:00   ` Jan Stancek [this message]
2019-10-15 14:38     ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-10-15 15:19       ` Jan Stancek

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