On Thu, 11 May 2017 13:10:03 +0000 Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> 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
