Re: simulating the kernel crash and kernel panic

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Hi Thalib,


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:56 PM, H M Thalib <hmthalib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, H M Thalib<hmthalib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to test my kernel for stability. Can you help me in artificially
simulating the kernel crash, kernel panic scenarios. Is there any
standard way to simulate it. maybe by running applications, scripts. but
I dont want to modify anything in the kernel space.

Try to study fault-injection. It's documented in
Documentation/fault-injection.txt inside kernel source tree. Never use
it 'til now, so I only can give you a clue.


Thanks -

But this steps involves in kernel space,

I am looking for producing kernel panic/crash/hang by running some script/application in user space - Is there any tool/standard defined way to do that


Why do you feel that you would be able to achieve this? Don't you think that such scripts would then we used as a malware.

I think in order to have such a protection we have a user space and a kernel space. You can panic/hang  user space processes using user space programs unless you have a loop hole in the kernel implementation. Which no one will put intentionally.
 

Thanks
Thalib


Regards,
Sandeep.






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