linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: Add a ksft

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Message-ID: <ZRaB3SfRaUFsP7XN@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:50:53 +0200
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: Add a ksft_perror() helper

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 05:48:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

> > nolibc doesn't have a strerror() and adding the table of strings required
> > doesn't seem like a good fit for what it's trying to do so when we're using
> > that only print the errno.

> Oh, interesting... what environment ends up without strerror()?

Like I say it's for nolibc - it's just some header files (all in the
kernel source), while it generally aims to be libc compatible it's
intentionally very small.

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