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SubjectRe: [RFD] x86: The future of MPX
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:18 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> I just tried the MPX testcases with the latest kernel:

> deimos:~/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86> ./mpx-mini-test_64

They need to be run as root. They try to access

/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

and that's root-only.

> ... and both of them crashed.

That's just because they use "assert()" to check that the file open worked.

"assert()" is evil and bad bad bad.

Linus

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