Re: [PATCH] kcsan: remove rng selftest

From: Marco Elver
Date: Mon Oct 17 2022 - 01:11:43 EST


On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 21:43, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The first test of the kcsan selftest appears to test if get_random_u32()
> returns two zeros in a row, and requires that it doesn't. This seems
> like a bogus critera. Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks pretty redundant at this point (I think some early version had
it because somehow I managed to run the test too early and wanted to
avoid that accidentally happening again).

> ---
> kernel/kcsan/selftest.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/selftest.c b/kernel/kcsan/selftest.c
> index 00cdf8fa5693..1740ce389e7f 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/selftest.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/selftest.c
> @@ -22,13 +22,6 @@
>
> #define ITERS_PER_TEST 2000
>
> -/* Test requirements. */
> -static bool __init test_requires(void)
> -{
> - /* random should be initialized for the below tests */
> - return get_random_u32() + get_random_u32() != 0;
> -}
> -
> /*
> * Test watchpoint encode and decode: check that encoding some access's info,
> * and then subsequent decode preserves the access's info.
> @@ -259,7 +252,6 @@ static int __init kcsan_selftest(void)
> pr_err("selftest: " #do_test " failed"); \
> } while (0)
>
> - RUN_TEST(test_requires);
> RUN_TEST(test_encode_decode);
> RUN_TEST(test_matching_access);
> RUN_TEST(test_barrier);
> --
> 2.37.3
>