linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] selftests: net: improve error handling in passive TFO test

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Message-ID: <88ead962-fec5-4834-88af-c478ee2bf023@web.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:46:10 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Yohei Kojima <yk@...oj.net>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] selftests: net: improve error handling in
 passive TFO test

> This commit improves the error handling in passive TFO test to check the
> return value from … and  to fail if read() failed.

Would any developers and system testers like to care more also for data output failures?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc4/source/tools/testing/selftests/net/tfo.c#L86-L88
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/252.html

Regards,
Markus