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Date:   Tue, 4 Aug 2020 13:18:15 -0700
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/12] kunit: Add 'kunit_shutdown' option

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 2:40 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:09:15PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > From: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
> >
> > Add a new kernel command-line option, 'kunit_shutdown', which allows the
> > user to specify that the kernel poweroff, halt, or reboot after
> > completing all KUnit tests; this is very handy for running KUnit tests
> > on UML or a VM so that the UML/VM process exits cleanly immediately
> > after running all tests without needing a special initramfs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  lib/kunit/executor.c                | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py |  2 +-
> >  tools/testing/kunit/kunit_parser.py |  2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/kunit/executor.c b/lib/kunit/executor.c
> > index a95742a4ece73..38061d456afb2 100644
> > --- a/lib/kunit/executor.c
> > +++ b/lib/kunit/executor.c
> > @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> >  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >
> > +#include <linux/reboot.h>
> >  #include <kunit/test.h>
> >
> >  /*
> > @@ -11,6 +12,23 @@ extern struct kunit_suite * const * const __kunit_suites_end[];
> >
> >  #if IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_KUNIT)
> >
> > +static char *kunit_shutdown;
> > +core_param(kunit_shutdown, kunit_shutdown, charp, 0644);
> > +
> > +static void kunit_handle_shutdown(void)
> > +{
> > +     if (!kunit_shutdown)
> > +             return;
> > +
> > +     if (!strcmp(kunit_shutdown, "poweroff"))
> > +             kernel_power_off();
> > +     else if (!strcmp(kunit_shutdown, "halt"))
> > +             kernel_halt();
> > +     else if (!strcmp(kunit_shutdown, "reboot"))
> > +             kernel_restart(NULL);
> > +
> > +}
>
> If you have patches that do something just before the initrd, and then
> you add more patches to shut down immediately after an initrd, people
> may ask you to just use an initrd instead of filling the kernel with
> these changes...
>
> I mean, I get it, but it's not hard to make an initrd that poke a sysctl
> to start the tests...
>
> In fact, you don't even need a initrd to poke sysctls these days.

True, but it is nice to not have to maintain an initramfs for each
architecture that you want to test. Still, I see your point. If we can
find a convenient way to distribute the needed dependencies for
running KUnit on each non-UML architecture then I think I can abandon
this change.

So how about this: I will drop this patch from this patchset and move
it up to the follow up patchset that adds multiarchitecture support to
kunit_tool. There we can address the problem of how to best track the
necessary dependencies including possibly intitramfss.