Hi, On 21/07/2009, H M Thalib <hmthalib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You are exactly correct. I want to check whether my kernel is stable or > it is having any loop holes left. I hope this types of test should be > conducted by the kernel testers/Linux distribution Maintainer as a > routine test. to check whether their system is stable with the kernel. This reminds me a lot of Fuzz Testing. There was a nice paper/slides/video done by one security researcher (search "Fuzzing" by Ilja van Sprundel), and I think he mentioned that you can also fuzz syscalls/ioctls. So you could in theory also fuzz some of the files in /sys. eg. a fuzzing tool called 'mangle' broke "linux 2.4.29 XFS image loading" (whatever image here means) Another tool called 'sysfuzz' broke MacOS X. Have a look for his work - it might be useful. Hope that helps, Srdjan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
