Re: [PATCH RESEND] lib/test_printf.c: call wait_for_random_bytes() before plain %p tests

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 08:10:31 EST


On Mon 2018-06-25 09:50:20, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2018-06-22 23:50:20, Thierry Escande wrote:
> > On 22/06/2018 22:53, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 02:24:34PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > > On Mon 2018-06-04 13:37:08, Thierry Escande wrote:
> > > > > If the test_printf module is loaded before the crng is initialized, the
> > > > > plain 'p' tests will fail because the printed address will not be hashed
> > > > > and the buffer will contain '(ptrval)' instead.
> > > > > This patch adds a call to wait_for_random_bytes() before plain 'p' tests
> > > > > to make sure the crng is initialized.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, my system did not boot with this patch and
> > > > CONFIG_TEST_PRINTF=y
> > >
> > > And neither does my test box. It killed my tests I was running, as one of the
> > > configs I test has this set.
> > >
> > > It appears that Andrew pulled it in and sent it to Linus, as it is in
> > > 4.18-rc1, and I need to now revert this patch to make my tests work.
> >
> > This patch has been superseded with a v2 and a v3 pushed into Petr
> > printk.git tree (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.19&id=ce041c43f22298485122bab15c14d062383fbc67).
> > Sorry for the mess...
>
> Andrew,
>
> should I send the revert and the better fix to Linus or would you like
> to do so?

Below is the proposed revert-commit just in case people want to add
Reviewed-by tags or so.