linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFT v5 2/7] selftests: Provide helper header for shadow stack testing

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 20:24:24 +0000
From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT v5 2/7] selftests: Provide helper header for shadow
 stack testing

On Sat, 2024-02-03 at 00:04 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> While almost all users of shadow stacks should be relying on the
> dynamic
> linker and libc to enable the feature there are several low level
> test
> programs where it is useful to enable without any libc support,
> allowing
> testing without full system enablement. This low level testing is
> helpful
> during bringup of the support itself, and also in enabling coverage
> by
> automated testing without needing all system components in the target
> root
> filesystems to have enablement.
> 
> Provide a header with helpers for this purpose, intended for use only
> by
> test programs directly exercising shadow stack interfaces.

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>