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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:05:54 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] sysctl: add pending proc_do_large_bitmap fix
To:     Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:42 AM Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:
>
> On 3/21/19 11:42 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:28 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrew, Kees,
> >>
> >> Eric sent a fix out for proc_do_large_bitmap() last month for when
> >> using a large input buffer. After patch review a test case for the issue
> >> was built and submitted. I noticed there were a few issues with the
> >> tests, but instead of just asking Eric to address them I've taken
> >> care of them and ammended the commit where necessary. There's a
> >> few issues he reported which I also address and fix in this series.
> >>
> >> Since we *do* expect users of these scripts to also use them on older
> >> kernels, I've also addressed not breaking calling the script for them,
> >> and gives us an easy way to easily extend our tests cases for future
> >> kernels as well.
> >>
> >> Before anyone considers these for stable as minor fixes, I'd recommend
> >> we also address the discrepancy on the read side of things: modify the
> >> test script to use diff against the target file instead of using the
> >> temp file.
> >>
> >> Eric Sandeen (2):
> >>   test_sysctl: add proc_do_large_bitmap() test case
> >>   sysctl: Fix proc_do_large_bitmap for large input buffers
> >>
> >> Luis Chamberlain (4):
> >>   test_sysctl: remove superfluous test_reqs()
> >>   test_sysctl: load module before testing for it
> >>   test_sysctl: ignore diff output on verify_diff_w()
> >>   test_sysctl: allow graceful use on older kernels
> >
> > Thanks for collecting and updating these!
> >
> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> >
> > Andrew, can you carry these?
>
> Ping?  This seems to have never made it off the list into anybody's
> tree.

Andrew, do you want me to send this to you again, or carry separately?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook