Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2017 09:15:35 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 |
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On Thu, 11 May 2017 13:10:03 +0000 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> wrote:
> If we suspect the existence of a load of potential time bombs in the > kernel due to missing checks, then the status quo is not good enough. > We should be working on tools to identify these code paths. > > Quite frankly, I'd love to see a fuzzer-like tool that can randomly > fail allocations.
The fault injection framework at least used to work quite nicely for this; I used it to test out the failure paths in the OLPC drivers years ago. Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt.
jon
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