From: Hrutvik Kanabar <hrutvik@xxxxxxxxxx> When implemented and enabled, this should circumvent all redundant checksum verification in filesystem code. However, setting of checksums is not affected. The aim is to aid fuzzing efforts which randomly mutate disk images and so invalidate checksums. Checksum verification often rejects these mutated disk images, hindering fuzzer coverage of deep code paths. By disabling checksum verification, all mutated images are considered valid and so exploration of interesting code paths can continue. This option requires the `DEBUG_KERNEL` option, and is not intended to be used on production systems. Signed-off-by: Hrutvik Kanabar <hrutvik@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/Kconfig.debug | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fs/Kconfig.debug diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.debug b/fs/Kconfig.debug new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bc1018e3d580 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/Kconfig.debug @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +config DISABLE_FS_CSUM_VERIFICATION + bool "Disable redundant checksum verification for filesystems" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Disable filesystem checksum verification for checksums which can be + trivially recomputed from the on-disk data (i.e. no encryption). + Note that this does not affect setting of checksums. + + This option is useful for filesystem testing. For example, fuzzing + with randomly mutated disk images can uncover bugs exploitable by + specially-crafted disks. Redundant checksums are orthogonal to these + exploits, as they can be recomputed for crafted disks. However, for + testing it is more reliable to disable checksums within the kernel + than to maintain image generators which faithfully reimplement + per-filesystem checksum recomputation. + + Say N if you are unsure. Disable this for production systems! + diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 73178b0e43a4..4689ae527993 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -979,6 +979,12 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.kmsan" endmenu # "Memory Debugging" +menu "Filesystem Debugging" + +source "fs/Kconfig.debug" + +endmenu # "Filesystem Debugging" + config DEBUG_SHIRQ bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL -- 2.38.0.413.g74048e4d9e-goog
