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From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/lkdtm: Use "comm" instead of "diff" for dmesg
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:53:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200630185310.GA29805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202006261358.3E8AA623A9@keescook>

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:59:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYtHP+Gg+BrR_GkBMxu2oOi-_e9pATtpb6TVRswv1G1r1Q@mail.gmail.com
> Fixes: f131d9edc29d ("selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests")
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.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 8383eb89d88a..5fe23009ae13 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 -13 "$DMESG" - > "$LOG" || true
>  
>  cat "$LOG"
>  # Check for expected output

I'm not familiar with running lkdtm tests, but I copied the same fixup
for the livepatching selftests and "comm" slides in nicely over there,
so,

Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

-- Joe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-30 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-26 20:59 [PATCH] selftests/lkdtm: Use "comm" instead of "diff" for dmesg Kees Cook
2020-06-27 11:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-27 15:52   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-29  5:50     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-30 18:53 ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2020-09-09 19:49 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-09 20:29   ` Joe Lawrence
2020-09-09 21:12     ` Kees Cook
2020-09-09 20:49   ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-09 21:18     ` Shuah Khan

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