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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 7/7] selftests/exec: Add READ_IMPLIES_EXEC tests
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On 2/11/20 4:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:06:53PM -0700, shuah wrote:
>> On 2/11/20 12:25 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:11:21AM -0700, shuah wrote:
>>>> On 2/10/20 12:30 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>>> In order to check the matrix of possible states for handling
>>>>> READ_IMPLIES_EXEC across native, compat, and the state of PT_GNU_STACK,
>>>>> add tests for these execution conditions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>>>
>>>> No issues for this to go through tip.
>>>>
>>>> A few problems to fix first. This fails to compile when 32-bit libraries
>>>> aren't installed. It should fail the 32-bit part and run other checks.
>>>
>>> Do you mean the Makefile should detect the missing compat build deps and
>>> avoid building them? Testing compat is pretty important to this test, so
>>> it seems like missing the build deps causing the build to fail is the
>>> correct action here. This is likely true for the x86/ selftests too.
>>>
>>> What would you like this to do?
>>>
>>
>> selftests/x86 does this already and runs the dependency check in
>> x86/Makefile.
>>
>>
>> check_cc.sh:# check_cc.sh - Helper to test userspace compilation support
>> Makefile:CAN_BUILD_I386 := $(shell ./check_cc.sh $(CC)
>> trivial_32bit_program.c -m32)
>> Makefile:CAN_BUILD_X86_64 := $(shell ./check_cc.sh $(CC)
>> trivial_64bit_program.c)
>> Makefile:CAN_BUILD_WITH_NOPIE := $(shell ./check_cc.sh $(CC)
>> trivial_program.c -no-pie)
>>
>> Take a look and see if you can leverage this.
>
> I did before, and it can certainly be done, but their stuff is somewhat
> specific to x86_64/ia32. I'm looking at supporting _all_ compat for any
> 64-bit architecture. I can certainly write some similar build tooling,
> but the question I have for you is one of coverage:
>
> If a builder is 64-bit, it needs to be able to produce 32-bit compat
> binaries for testing, otherwise the test is incomplete. (i.e. the tests
> will only be able to test native behavior and not compat). This doesn't
> seem like an "XFAIL" situation to me, and it doesn't seem right to
> silently pass. It seems like the build should explicitly fail because
> the needed prerequisites are missing. Do you instead want me to just
> have it skip building the compat binaries if it can't build them?
>

Can we do the following:


Build and run tests thatc an be built.
Skip build and warn that test coverage is incomplete for compat
with a strong recommendation on installing 32-bit libraries with
some instructions on how to if applicable.

thanks,
-- Shuah

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