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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: Add a ksft_perror() helper
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:31:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202309291031.1B2A2EE@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZRaB3SfRaUFsP7XN@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:50:53AM +0200, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 05:48:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> > > nolibc doesn't have a strerror() and adding the table of strings required
> > > doesn't seem like a good fit for what it's trying to do so when we're using
> > > that only print the errno.
> 
> > Oh, interesting... what environment ends up without strerror()?
> 
> 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?

-- 
Kees Cook


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-29 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-28 14:38 [PATCH 0/2] kselftest/exec: Convert execveat test to KTAP output Mark Brown
2023-09-28 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: Add a ksft_perror() helper Mark Brown
2023-09-29  0:48   ` Kees Cook
2023-09-29  7:50     ` Mark Brown
2023-09-29 17:31       ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-10-01 10:24         ` Mark Brown
2023-09-28 14:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/exec: Convert execveat test to generate KTAP output Mark Brown
2023-09-29  0:48   ` Kees Cook

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