On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:57:56AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:11:05AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:06:44AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > > Version 2 of Greg's patch series with changes made as suggested by > > > comments to V1. > > > > Patch set tested by setting /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict and inserting > > the following module > > > > #include <linux/init.h> > > #include <linux/module.h> > > > > #define DRIVER_AUTHOR "Tobin C. Harding <m...@tobin.cc>" > > #define DRIVER_DESC "Testing module" > > > > static void test_printk(void) > > { > > char *ptr = ""; > > > > pr_alert("printing with p: %p\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with pK: %pK\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with pP: %pP\n", ptr); > > > > pr_alert("printing with pa: %pa\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with pad: %pad\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with pap: %pap\n", ptr); > > > > pr_alert("printing with paP: %paP\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with padP: %padP\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with papP: %papP\n", ptr); > > > > pr_alert("printing with pr: %pr\n", ptr); > > pr_alert("printing with pR: %pR\n", ptr); > > } > > > > static int hello_init(void) > > { > > pr_alert("Hello, world\n"); > > > > test_printk(); > > > > return 0; > > } > > module_init(hello_init); > > > > static void hello_exit(void) > > { > > pr_alert("Goodbye, world\n"); > > } > > module_exit(hello_exit); > > > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC); > > MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR); > > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > > > Hm, any way to add something like this to the testing infrastructure? > Or maybe just at boot time? It's nice to keep tests around to ensure > things do not break :)
Sure, good idea, I'll look into it. It will be my first attempt at adding tests to the kernel so will come as a separate patch set some time soon. thanks, Tobin.