linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kunit: Taint kernel if any tests run

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Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 11:46:01 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Joe Fradley <joefradley@...gle.com>,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kunit: Taint kernel if any tests run

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 11:25:14AM -0500, Daniel Latypov wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:51 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> > selftests has modules, although I am not sure if there are selftests
> > which do not load modules. Shuah?
> 
> I'm not Shuah, but there are indeed selftests that don't load modules.
> 
> I went looking for an example and found
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh, which runs entirely in
> userspace (basically just `make docs`).

OK so, we can just skip tainting considerations for selftests which
don't use modules for now. There may be selftests which do wonky
things in userspace but indeed I agree the userspace taint would
be better for those but I don't think it may be worth bother
worrying about those at this point in time.

But my point in that sharing a taint between kunit / selftests modules
does make sense and is easily possible. The unfortunate aspect is just
that selftests don't have a centralized runner, because I can just
run tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh for example and that's it.
So I think we have no other option but to just add the module info
manually for selftests at this time.

  Luis