Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v1] apparmor: add AppArmor KUnit tests for policy unpack

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 08:29:57 EST


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> From: Mike Salvatore <mike.salvatore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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/

Luis