linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2020-06-20-21-36 uploaded (lkdtm/bugs.c)

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:50:08 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rd.dunlab@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, broonie@...nel.org, mhocko@...e.cz,
        sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2020-06-20-21-36 uploaded (lkdtm/bugs.c)

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:37:17AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 6/20/20 9:37 PM, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2020-06-20-21-36 has been uploaded to
> > 
> >    http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > mmotm-readme.txt says
> > 
> > README for mm-of-the-moment:
> > 
> > http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > This is a snapshot of my -mm patch queue.  Uploaded at random hopefully
> > more than once a week.
> 
> drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c has build errors when building UML for i386
> (allmodconfig or allyesconfig):
> 
> 
> In file included from ../drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c:17:0:
> ../arch/x86/um/asm/desc.h:7:0: warning: "LDT_empty" redefined
>  #define LDT_empty(info) (\
>  
> In file included from ../arch/um/include/asm/mmu.h:10:0,
>                  from ../include/linux/mm_types.h:18,
>                  from ../include/linux/sched/signal.h:13,
>                  from ../drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c:11:
> ../arch/x86/um/asm/mm_context.h:65:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>  #define LDT_empty(info) (_LDT_empty(info))

The LKDTM test landed a while ago:
b09511c253e5 ("lkdtm: Add a DOUBLE_FAULT crash type on x86")

and nothing has touched arch/x86/um/asm/desc.h nor
arch/x86/um/asm/mm_context.h in a while either.

Regardless, it seems arch/x86/um/asm/desc.h is not needed any more?

-- 
Kees Cook