From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add kernel config option for fuzz testing.
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:34:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9qgunjk.fsf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191216095955.9886-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> (Tetsuo Handa's message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:59:55 +0900")
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> writes:
> While syzkaller is finding many bugs, sometimes syzkaller examines
> stupid operations. But disabling operations using kernel config option
> is problematic because "kernel config option excludes whole module when
> there is still room for examining all but specific operation" and
> "the list of kernel config options becomes too complicated to maintain
> because such list changes over time". Thus, this patch introduces a
> kernel config option which allows disabling only specific operations.
> This kernel config option should be enabled only when building kernels
> for fuzz testing.
It seems this should rather be a run time setting. Otherwise it's
impossible to fuzz existing kernel binaries without rebuilding them.
Yes syzkaller requires rebuilding anyways for the new compiler options,
but there are other options (e.g. PT guided fuzzing) that do not.
Maybe the run time setting can be the same as locked down kernels.
It seems to me locked down kernels should avoid all these operations too.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-16 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-16 9:59 [PATCH] kconfig: Add kernel config option for fuzz testing Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-16 11:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-16 15:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-16 16:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-16 20:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-16 21:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-17 8:36 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-17 8:53 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-02 19:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2020-02-18 10:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-02-27 22:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-02-27 22:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-17 15:52 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-19 17:43 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-19 21:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-18 10:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-12-19 17:21 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-16 18:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2019-12-16 18:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-17 5:12 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-17 7:54 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-17 8:24 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-12-17 8:38 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-17 5:42 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-12-17 8:41 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-12-17 12:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
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