[LTP] [PATCH v1] [RFC] Remove tomoyo testing suite

[Andrea Cervesato]

Hello Tomoyo devs,

thank you for your feedback, we will continue on our side then.

Regards,
Andrea

On 3/2/23 15:47, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Thank you for heads-up.
>
> Removing testing suite for tomoyo from the LTP testcases folder is fine, for
> the latest testing suite for tomoyo is maintained at
> https://osdn.net/projects/tomoyo/scm/svn/tree/head/trunk/2.6.x/tomoyo-tools/kernel_test/
> and tomoyo is tested by syzbot.
>
> But the reasoning "the whole Tomoyo linux functionality seems replaced by
> SELinux or AppArmor" is wrong; the functionality cannot be replaced by
> other LSM modules. ;-)
>
> On 2023/03/02 23:31, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
>> Hi!
>> CCing the contact on https://tomoyo.osdn.jp/support.html.en
>>
>> If anyone wants to pick up the testsuite and maintain it please speak
>> up.
>>
>>> The tomoyo testing suite is built and installed inside the LTP testcases
>>> folder, but it's not used by any runtest file. It seems an old and
>>> unmaintained testing suite that uses old LTP API and ltp_clone_quick
>>> that is going to be deprecated.
>>>
>>> We suppose to update it using new LTP API, cleaning up the code and
>>> removing deprecated functions, but nowadays the whole Tomoyo linux
>>> functionality seems replaced by SELinux or AppArmor and not maintained
>>> anymore in years of development.
>>>
>>> For this reason, this patch is going to remove it from LTP installation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
>