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Luis R. Rodriguez 9308f2f9e7 test_sysctl: add dedicated proc sysctl test driver
The existing tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/ tests include two test
cases, but these use existing production kernel sysctl interfaces.  We
want to expand test coverage but we can't just be looking for random
safe production values to poke at, that's just insane!

Instead just dedicate a test driver for debugging purposes and port the
existing scripts to use it.  This will make it easier for further tests
to be added.

Subsequent patches will extend our test coverage for sysctl.

The stress test driver uses a new license (GPL on Linux, copyleft-next
outside of Linux).  Linus was fine with this [0] and later due to Ted's
and Alans's request ironed out an "or" language clause to use [1] which
is already present upstream.

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFyhxcvD+q7tp+-yrSFDKfR0mOHgyEAe=f_94aKLsOu0Og@mail.gmail.com
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495234558.7848.122.camel@linux.intel.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630224431.17374-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
arch powerpc/fadump: use the correct VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE for phdr 2017-07-12 16:25:59 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
Documentation kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2017-07-12 10:04:56 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs sysctl: add unsigned int range support 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
include sysctl: add unsigned int range support 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
init mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
ipc mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() 2017-07-09 14:37:19 -07:00
kernel sysctl: add unsigned int range support 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
lib test_sysctl: add dedicated proc sysctl test driver 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
mm mm/memory.c: mark create_huge_pmd() inline to prevent build failure 2017-07-12 16:25:59 -07:00
net The main item here is support for v12.y.z ("Luminous") clusters: 2017-07-11 12:12:28 -07:00
samples bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file 2017-07-05 09:05:28 +01:00
scripts checkpatch: improve multi-line alignment test 2017-07-10 16:32:35 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
sound main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
tools test_sysctl: add dedicated proc sysctl test driver 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt PPC: 2017-07-06 18:38:31 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2017-07-12 10:04:56 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.