Re: [PATCH mm] another fix for "kasan: improve vmalloc tests"

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 7:11 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 19:08, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:50 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 18:10, <andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > set_memory_rw/ro() are not exported to be used in modules and thus
> > > > cannot be used in KUnit-compatible KASAN tests.
> > > >
> > > > Drop the checks that rely on these functions.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  lib/test_kasan.c | 6 ------
> > > >  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
> > > > index ef99d81fe8b3..448194bbc41d 100644
> > > > --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> > > > +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> > > > @@ -1083,12 +1083,6 @@ static void vmalloc_helpers_tags(struct kunit *test)
> > > >         KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE(test, is_vmalloc_addr(ptr));
> > > >         KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, vmalloc_to_page(ptr));
> > > >
> > > > -       /* Make sure vmalloc'ed memory permissions can be changed. */
> > > > -       rv = set_memory_ro((unsigned long)ptr, 1);
> > > > -       KUNIT_ASSERT_GE(test, rv, 0);
> > > > -       rv = set_memory_rw((unsigned long)ptr, 1);
> > > > -       KUNIT_ASSERT_GE(test, rv, 0);
> > >
> > > You can still test it by checking 'ifdef MODULE'. You could add a
> > > separate test which is skipped if MODULE is defined. Does that work?
> >
> > Yes, putting it under ifdef will work. I thought that having a
> > discrepancy between built-in and module tests is weird, but I see the
> > kprobes tests doing this, so maybe it's not such a bad idea. Will do
> > in v2.
>
> Additionally you could have the test skip with kunit_skip(), so it's
> at least visible. The code itself has to be #ifdef'd I guess because
> set_memory_*() aren't even declared ifdef MODULE (I think?).

I sent v2 with the simplest approach without an additional test. I
hope that's OK with you.