linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] kallsyms: Add self-test facility

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Date:   Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:07:44 +0100
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] kallsyms: Add self-test facility



On September 9, 2022 2:00:16 PM GMT+01:00, Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com> wrote:
>Add some test cases to test the function and performance of some kallsyms
>interfaces, such as kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the
>compression rate of the kallsyms compression algorithm for the current
>symbol set.
>
>Start self-test automatically after system startup.

I wonder if this would be better implemented as a kunit test? Shouldn't be too hard to convert. Take a look at things like lib/overflow_kunit.c, etc.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook