On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 19:14 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > Hi Paul/James, > > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 20:46 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 7:18:22 pm James Morris wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Subrata Modak wrote: > > > > Hi James, > > > > > > > > As i have talked to the SE-Linux mini summit during OLS 2008, > > > > regarding testing all components of LSM, i would like to know if > > > > you would like to share testing the AUDIT LSM in kernel. If > > > > possible i would like to get them integrated inside LTP under > > > > GPLv2. Let me know what you think about this. > > > > > > Sounds like a good idea. Who is going to do what? > > > > I agree, testing is always good. That said I'm not sure how much I will > > be able to help in the near future. We here at HP did release some > > audit tests from our recent Common Criteria certifications on > > SourceForge[1] which may or may-not be helpful. The don't utilize the > > LTP framework but they may provide some test development ideas. > > It is perfectly Ok, if some tests do not obey the LTP framework, but > they still exist inside LTP. You can see that for yourself here: > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/, > > While testcases like open_posix, open_hpi, kdump, ballista, pounder21, > realtime, etc do not follow LTP framework. Hence during LTP releases, > these are also released as separate tarballs apart from being part of > the main release tarball as well. So, people who use all the tests will > download the main release, others do selective downloads. > > What you see inside the > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/, sub directory > are the actual test cases which follow the LTP framework. In fact if > there are tests which just return 0/non-zero on PASS/FAIL is a suitable > candidate for initial inclusion into absolute LTP framework. > > Even during the last FOSS 2007 meeting, i had a talk with James and he > said that HP has released Common Criteria certifications. I was > wondering that i had done only for IBM´s and SGI´s Common Criteria > Certification testsuite release, not for HP: > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3382, > > So, wouldn´t it be better to put audit-test somewhere here: > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/, > > or, more better here: > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/security/, > > If you give me a thumbsup for this, initially i would request a DCO > signoff mail (my legal obligations) from you to ltp-list. Nexttime > onwards, whenever you update your releases in > https://sourceforge.net/projects/audit-test, i can automatically pull > the diff inside LTP. Do you think that this can be a nice beginning ?
I forgot to mention another advantage. When this is in put in LTP, the scope of usage of audit-test will increase, and hence you can expect more reviews/contributions. Regards-- Subrata > > Regards-- > Subrata > > > > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/audit-test > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
