linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] selftests/tty: add TIOCSTI test suite

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Message-ID: <87jz2fk03m.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:08:06 -0600
From: Abhinav Saxena <xandfury@...il.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@...il.com>, Bill Wendling
 <morbo@...gle.com>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, Paul Moore
 <paul@...l-moore.com>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] selftests/tty: add TIOCSTI test suite

Hi Greg,

Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 06:17:56PM -0600, Abhinav Saxena wrote:
>> TIOCSTI is a TTY ioctl command that allows inserting characters into
>> the terminal input queue, making it appear as if the user typed those
>> characters. This functionality has behavior that varies based on system
>> configuration and process credentials.
>
> <snip>
>
> Any specific reason you didn’t cc: the tty/serial maintainers and the
> linux-serial list for this?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

My apologies for the oversight. I used b4 to collect to/cc addresses,
and didn’t confirm them before sending the patch. I guess since this is
just a selftest, it did not include tty/serial maintainers.

I’ll resend the series.

-Abhinav