From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
shuah@kernel.org, john.johansen@canonical.com, jmorris@namei.org,
serge@hallyn.com, keescook@chromium.org, yzaikin@google.com,
davidgow@google.com, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Salvatore <mike.salvatore@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v1] apparmor: add AppArmor KUnit tests for policy unpack
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 18:36:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191019183643.GG11244@42.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1910191348280.11804@dhcp-10-175-221-34.vpn.oracle.com>
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:56:01PM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > > From: Mike Salvatore <mike.salvatore@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > In order to write the tests against the policy unpacking code, some
> > > static functions needed to be exposed for testing purposes. One of the
> > > goals of this patch is to establish a pattern for which testing these
> > > kinds of functions should be done in the future.
> >
> > And you'd run into the same situation expressed elsewhere with kunit of
> > an issue of the kunit test as built-in working but if built as a module
> > then it would not work, given the lack of exports. Symbols namespaces
> > should resolve this [0], and we'd be careful where a driver imports this
> > namespace.
> >
> > [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/798254/
> >
>
> Thanks for the link! Looks interesting for us definitely!
>
> WRT adding tests, I think what we're aiming at is a set of best practices
> to advise test developers using KUnit, while attempting to minimize
> side-effects of any changes we need to make to support testability.
>
> One aspect of this we probably have to consider is inlining of code.
Sure. Makes sense.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-19 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 0:18 [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v1] apparmor: add AppArmor KUnit tests for policy unpack Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 0:33 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-10-30 18:59 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-06 0:35 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-11-06 0:37 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 0:43 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 16:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-18 21:41 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-30 19:02 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-31 9:01 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-18 12:29 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-10-19 12:56 ` Alan Maguire
2019-10-19 18:36 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2019-10-24 0:42 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-24 10:15 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-10-30 19:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-30 20:11 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-10-31 1:40 ` John Johansen
2019-10-31 9:33 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-31 18:40 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-05 16:43 ` Mike Salvatore
2019-11-05 23:59 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-31 1:37 ` John Johansen
2019-10-31 9:17 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-11-01 12:30 ` Alan Maguire
2019-11-05 23:44 ` Brendan Higgins
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