| From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:06:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/10] lkdtm: disable set_fs-based tests for !CONFIG_SET_FS |
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:00 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > > Once we can't manipulate the address limit, we also can't test what > happens when the manipulation is abused.
Just remove these tests entirely.
Once set_fs() doesn't exist on x86, the tests no longer make any sense what-so-ever, because test coverage will be basically zero.
So don't make the code uglier just to maintain a fiction that something is tested when it isn't really.
Linus
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