Thanks for the info and the read. I don’t have the git tree set up yet, I’ll work on that as well. > On Nov 24, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:58:24 +0000, Benjamin Selormey said: >> Hello, >> >> I’m a newbie with Linux kernel and I l want to contribute in security research of the Linux Kernel. > > A newbie? Go and read https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2017-April/017765.html > and Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst in your git tree. > > You *do* have a git tree of some appropriate kernel, right? If not, fix that deficiency. :) > >> I am interested in memory management and devices communication with the kernel. Does anyone have a starter project in mind I can start with? > > Hmm. Security and memory management? The obvious place to start is to go and > look at all the since-patched cases of vma splits and merges abused for > exploits. Google for 'vma bug linux'. Read, understand, and look for other > similar issues. Note that you'll probably need to understand in sufficient > depth that you can write at least a PoC (proof of concept) exploit that > demonstrates the problem. > > Note that you may have trouble finding anything, most of the obvious cases got > pointed out by Solar Designer and Brad Spengler a decade or more ago. > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
