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

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:03:33 -0700
From:   "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...nel.org>
To:     "Kees Cook" <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
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        "Shuah Khan" <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: proc: Make sure wchan works when it exists



On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, at 4:55 PM, 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":

Is this really better than admitting that the whole mechanism is nonsense and disabling it?

We could have a fixed string for each task state and call it a day.