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Message-ID: <201905170937.7A1E646F61@keescook>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 09:37:43 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] lib: introduce test_meminit module

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 05:51:17PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:02 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > > Add tests for heap and pagealloc initialization.
> > > These can be used to check init_on_alloc and init_on_free implementations
> > > as well as other approaches to initialization.
> >
> > This is nice! Easy way to test the results. It might be helpful to show
> > here what to expect when loading this module:
>
> Do you want me to add the expected output to the patch description?

Yes, I think it's worth having, as a way to show people what to expect
when running the test, without having to actually enable, build, and
run it themselves.

-- 
Kees Cook

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