[Devel] Re: [TESTING] Device whitelist on cgroups

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Tue Aug 26 09:00:03 PDT 2008


Quoting Pavel Emelyanov (xemul at openvz.org):
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Subrata Modak (subrata at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> >> Serge,
> >>
> >> I have another doubt. Are we also having the plan(s) to add testcases
> >> for testing this new feature (Device whitelist on cgroups) added in
> >> 2.6.26 under the DEVICE NAMESPACE category !!
> >>
> >> Regards--
> >> Subrata
> > 
> > That's something I expect Veerendra would do next year.  (Veerendra,
> > if you have time this year, please let me know).
> > 
> > It also seems likely that the openvz folks, who are using this,
> > have some testcases they could share.  Pavel?
> 
> We have and we could share them, but unfortunately their 
> *implementation* is completely useless without the whole 
> testing infrastructure we use (which it turn is too heavy
> and too Virtuozzo-specific to be shared).
> 
> All I can is provide a single testcase we perform: set some
> permissions and check that the allowed devices are allowed
> and not allowed are not allowed ;)

Ok, thanks, Pavel.  Sounds like starting from scratch would be
the simplest thing here.

-serge
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