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SubjectRe: [Announce] Strace Test
dan carpenter writes:
> Good evening,
>
> I'm happy to announce the initial public release of
> Strace Test. I believe Strace Test is the most
> aggressive general purpose kernel tester available.
> Strace Test generally crashes my system within
> 5 minutes (2.6.1-rc2).
>
> Strace Test uses a modified version of strace 4.5.1.
> Instead of printing out information about system calls,
> the modified version calls the syscalls with improper
> values.

It immediately DoSes kernel by calling sys_sysctl() with huge nlen:
printk() consumes all CPU.

Nikita.
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