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Re: CVS commit: src/tests/kernel




On 10.11.2016 03:28, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, matthew green wrote:
> 
>>>> also, root can't attach to pid1 if securelevel is >= 0.
>>>
>>> To adjust securelevel this test would need to be modified to run under
>>> rump ...  We wouldn't want the test to manipulate securelevel of the
>>> running system.
>>
>> s/wouldn't want/*can't* by design have/.
>>
>> i don't know that running under rump is useful here.  i certainly
>> would not trust ptrace tests in a rump to cover it properly.  this
>> test should just be skipped if securelevel >= 0.  fact is that
>> very few systems run with securelevel these days, so it's a small
>> portion of systems that won't have it.
> 
> Yeah, rump probably doesn't make much sense here.  Skipping the test
> (with atf_tc_skip(...) of course) is likely the best solution.
> 
> 

This test is already enforcing unprivileged user. For now, I leave all
other rump and securelevel use-cases.

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