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| Started by | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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| First post | 2017-05-16 17:20 +0200 |
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Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2017-05-16 17:20 +0200
| From | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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| Date | 2017-05-16 17:20 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 |
| Message-ID | <tHMqt-7gj-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
On Thu, 11 May 2017 13:10:03 +0000 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> wrote: > If we suspect the existence of a load of potential time bombs in the > kernel due to missing checks, then the status quo is not good enough. > We should be working on tools to identify these code paths. > > Quite frankly, I'd love to see a fuzzer-like tool that can randomly > fail allocations. The fault injection framework at least used to work quite nicely for this; I used it to test out the failure paths in the OLPC drivers years ago. Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt. jon
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