On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 01:45:12PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
Hi all,
for my talk at EOSS23 about object life-time issues[1], I created a loose set of tests checking some longstanding problems in the Linux Kernel. I would like to improve these tests. Now, I wonder where I could contribute them to because their scope seems different to me. They are not for regression testing because I don't have a fix for most of them. Some fixes mean rewriting private data allocations for a whole subsystem and drivers. The tests are rather meant for documenting known problems and checking if someone started working on it. But it seems that kselftest (and LTP also?) only accept tests which do not fail by default. The question is now, is there another test collection project I could contribute these tests to? I'd be very happy for pointers, I started looking around but to no avail...
Why not just add them to the kernel tree, with ksft_test_result_skip() being the result for now while they still fail, and then when the kernel code is fixed up, change that back to the correct ksft_test_result_error() call instead?
"SKIP" is a good thing to take advantage of here.
thanks,
greg k-h