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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Misc driver fix for 5.15-rc1
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:44:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109121236.4C17E6B00B@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiVEEzLPLTkb9U6YB-2qXpbuqP3a1q=gRx8Nkg-dpLeqw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:22:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:17 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > This was done to deal with the various mangling of reports (i.e.
> > "summaries") I've been getting from CI systems that run LKDTM.
> 
> .. and what makes LKDTM so special?
> 
> IOW, what about ALL THE OTHER REPORTS?

I'm not sure I consider it "special", but since it reports hints about the
build/test configuration combinations (i.e. "this test failed probably
because CONFIG_FOO is missing"), it seemed trivial to also include the
specifics of the version and arch.

> And no, my argument is most definitely not "ok, everything should do this".

Right, I completely understand that. If you really want it gone, I
will rip it out; it'll just make it more time consuming to analyze some
CI reports.

> It's the reverse. The CI systems should be the ones that are fixed,
> not random messages from random places in the kernel have version
> information added.

Completely agreed, and I've been _also_ been spending my time sending
patches[1] to CI tooling too, trying to solve this from both sides. But
not all CIs have the source for their machinery open for patching. :(

-Kees

[1] https://github.com/Linaro/test-definitions/commit/8bd338bbcfa5a03efcf1d12e25b5d341d5a29cbc

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-12 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-12 14:03 [GIT PULL] Misc driver fix for 5.15-rc1 Greg KH
2021-09-12 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-12 19:17   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-12 19:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-12 19:44       ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-09-12 19:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-12 22:26           ` Kees Cook
2021-09-12 19:16 ` pr-tracker-bot

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