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

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Message-ID: <ZRlIxEz7P1OcqxEo@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Sun, 1 Oct 2023 11:24:04 +0100
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 Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:31:56AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:50:53AM +0200, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

> Right, I mean, how would one normally encounter this environment? Running
> the selftests on m68k userspace or something?

There's a bunch of selftests that cover interfaces that are intended to
be used by libc which are built with nolibc in order to avoid the tests
and glibc stomping over each other.

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