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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 14:58:23 +1100
From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: running leaking_addresses.pl
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:39:12AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Tobin,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:36:13AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Recently scripts/leaking_addresses.pl was merged into the mainline with
> >the hope of catching leaking kernel addresses.
> >
> >Would it be in scope for this script to be run by the kbuild test robot?
> >Excuse my very little knowledge of the kbuild test robot but would this
> >lead to the script being run on a number of kernels with varying
> >configuration?
> 
> Yes it's in our plan. Bill Roberts also requested testing leaking_addresses.pl
> and Philip has scheduled it to next quarter.

Awesome.

> >In the event that this may be a possibility can I add that I do not have
> >a suggestion for what to do with the output, can it go to LKML? I'm
> >happy to be CC'd on the output to help investigate.
> 
> That'd be great! In general we are mainly responsible for catching
> regressions. Due to limit of time and expertise, we leave the analyze
> and bug fixing works to the first bad commit's authors and anyone who
> are interested in looking into a class of problems. For example, we'll
> CC some smatch and coccinelle regressions (possibly false positive) to
> Dan and Julia.

Ok cool, sign me up. I'm keen as mustard.

thanks,
Tobin