Re: [PATCH v6] kernel: add kcov code coverage

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 08:04:23 EST


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
> (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
> that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
> system. A notable user-space example is AFL
> (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
> widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
> support.

Kirill, I export kcov file as 0600 now.

Any more comments?

Andrew, will you take this to mm? Or how does it happen?