linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] selftests/x86: Add test

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:25:00 -0700
From:   Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> This tests that the vsyscall entries do what they're expected to do.
> It also confirms that attempts to read the vsyscall page behave as
> expected.
>
> If changes are made to the vsyscall code or its memory map handling,
> running this test in all three of vsyscall=none, vsyscall=emulate,
> and vsyscall=native are helpful.
>
> (Because it's easy, this also compares the vsyscall results to their
>  vDSO equivalents.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> ---
>

Hi Andy,

I am not cc'ed on this patch. Doesn't look like the patch is sent to everybody
get_maintainers lists for the set of files that are changed in this patch.

Please make sure to include everybody on your future kselftest patches.

thanks,
-- Shuah