From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>,
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] test: validate sysctl_writes_strict
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 07:42:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53650053.5050402@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398979597-3589-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>
On 05/01/2014 02:26 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This adds several behavioral tests to sysctl string and number writing
> to detect unexpected cases that behaved differently when the sysctl
> kernel.sysctl_writes_strict != 1.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> kernel/sysctl.c | 4 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
> tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/Makefile | 19 ++++
> tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/common_tests | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/run_numerictests | 10 +++
> tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/run_stringtests | 77 ++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/Makefile
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/common_tests
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/run_numerictests
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/run_stringtests
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index d5bee7949e4a..51bbf904d694 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -1783,8 +1783,8 @@ static int _proc_do_string(char *data, int maxlen, int write,
>
> static void warn_sysctl_write(struct ctl_table *table)
> {
> - pr_warn("%s wrote to %s when file position was not 0!\n",
> - current->task_comm, table->procname);
> + pr_warn("write to %s by %s used a non-zero file position!\n",
> + table->procname, current->comm);
> pr_warn("This will not be supported in the future.\n");
> pr_warn("To silence warning, set kernel.sysctl_writes_strict = -1\n");
> }
Why is this patch part of the test patch?
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-03 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 21:26 [PATCH v3 0/4] sysctl: fix incorrect write position handling Kees Cook
2014-05-01 21:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] sysctl: clean up char buffer arguments Kees Cook
2014-05-01 21:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] sysctl: refactor sysctl string writing logic Kees Cook
2014-05-01 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] sysctl: allow for strict write position handling Kees Cook
2014-05-01 21:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] test: validate sysctl_writes_strict Kees Cook
2014-05-03 14:42 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-05-06 1:29 ` Kees Cook
2014-05-05 22:00 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] sysctl: fix incorrect write position handling Andrew Morton
2014-05-06 1:28 ` Kees Cook
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