linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] selftests: proc: Make sure wchan works when it exists

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:09:33 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: proc: Make sure wchan works when it exists

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 04:55:04PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> This makes sure that wchan contains a sensible symbol when a process is
> blocked. Specifically this calls the sleep() syscall, and expects the
> architecture to have called schedule() from a function that has "sleep"
> somewhere in its name. For example, on the architectures I tested
> (x86_64, arm64, arm, mips, and powerpc) this is "hrtimer_nanosleep":
> 
> $ tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-pid-wchan
> ok: found 'sleep' in wchan 'hrtimer_nanosleep'
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Friendly ping.

> ---
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Can you add this to the wchan series, please? This should help wchan from
> regressing in the future, and allow us to notice if the depth accidentally
> changes, like Mark saw.
> ---

I'd like to make sure we have a regression test for this. Will you add
this to the wchan series please?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook