On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:39:12AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Hi Tobin, > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:36:13AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Recently scripts/leaking_addresses.pl was merged into the mainline with > >the hope of catching leaking kernel addresses. > > > >Would it be in scope for this script to be run by the kbuild test robot? > >Excuse my very little knowledge of the kbuild test robot but would this > >lead to the script being run on a number of kernels with varying > >configuration? > > Yes it's in our plan. Bill Roberts also requested testing leaking_addresses.pl > and Philip has scheduled it to next quarter.
Awesome. > >In the event that this may be a possibility can I add that I do not have > >a suggestion for what to do with the output, can it go to LKML? I'm > >happy to be CC'd on the output to help investigate. > > That'd be great! In general we are mainly responsible for catching > regressions. Due to limit of time and expertise, we leave the analyze > and bug fixing works to the first bad commit's authors and anyone who > are interested in looking into a class of problems. For example, we'll > CC some smatch and coccinelle regressions (possibly false positive) to > Dan and Julia. Ok cool, sign me up. I'm keen as mustard. thanks, Tobin