linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm] another fix for "kasan: improve vmalloc tests"

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Message-ID: <CANpmjNOnr=B_o83BJ6b1S6FKWe+p2vR58H8CHtGPNPnu6-cQZg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:50:40 +0100
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] another fix for "kasan: improve vmalloc tests"

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 18:10, <andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
>
> set_memory_rw/ro() are not exported to be used in modules and thus
> cannot be used in KUnit-compatible KASAN tests.
>
> Drop the checks that rely on these functions.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> ---
>  lib/test_kasan.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
> index ef99d81fe8b3..448194bbc41d 100644
> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> @@ -1083,12 +1083,6 @@ static void vmalloc_helpers_tags(struct kunit *test)
>         KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE(test, is_vmalloc_addr(ptr));
>         KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, vmalloc_to_page(ptr));
>
> -       /* Make sure vmalloc'ed memory permissions can be changed. */
> -       rv = set_memory_ro((unsigned long)ptr, 1);
> -       KUNIT_ASSERT_GE(test, rv, 0);
> -       rv = set_memory_rw((unsigned long)ptr, 1);
> -       KUNIT_ASSERT_GE(test, rv, 0);

You can still test it by checking 'ifdef MODULE'. You could add a
separate test which is skipped if MODULE is defined. Does that work?