Re: [PATCH] lib: stackinit: Convert to KUnit

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Mar 23 2022 - 11:46:39 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 03:30:22PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 9:12 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Convert to running under Kunit (and retain being able to run stand-alone
> > too). Building under Clang (or GCC 12) with CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y,
> > this now passes as expected:
> >
> > $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py config --make_option LLVM=1
> > $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run overflow --make_option LLVM=1 \
> > --kconfig_add CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y
> > ...
>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 02788ebcf521fe78 ("lib:
> stackinit: Convert to KUnit") upstream.
>
> Out of curiosity, I gave this a try on m68k, and it still seems to
> fail the same way of before[1]:
> [...]
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdW6N40+0gGQ+LSrN64Mo4A0-ELAm0pR3gWQ0mNanyBuUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ah yes! Thanks for the reminder. I will take a look at this. Clearly, it's
an issue with memory layout assumptions that don't match on m68k, etc.

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Kees Cook