linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL

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Message-ID: <8a8ee344-fb19-3ed9-f7dc-db63f703e6d3@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:37:26 +0900
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        linux-mips <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers

On 03/27/2018 10:03 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Do you have a few statically built binaries that could be tested
> without installing a whole distribution? Something real and meaningful
> enough that it actually exercised a few real system calls, but not
> something that needs to bring in 50 different shared libraries?
> 
> Something in /sbin, perhaps, that is still runnable by a regular user
> and doesn't require some distro-specific /etc layout etc, so that it
> would work even if you don't run Debian at all? Maybe some shell
> binary or something?

What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot? Then you can
install interesting packages you would like to test yourself.

Adrian

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