Re: [PATCH v2] Add kernel config option for fuzz testing.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 06:29:35PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > @@ -705,10 +706,12 @@ static void lockdep_print_held_locks(struct task_struct *p)
> >  	 * It's not reliable to print a task's held locks if it's not sleeping
> >  	 * and it's not the current task.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING && p != current)
> > -		return;
> > +	unreliable = p->state == TASK_RUNNING && p != current;
> >  	for (i = 0; i < depth; i++) {
> > -		printk(" #%d: ", i);
> > +		if (unreliable)
> > +			printk(" #%d?: ", i);
> > +		else
> > +			printk(" #%d: ", i);
> 
> Have you tried submitting this? Has Peter nacked it?

It has definite UaF potential... do we have a boot parameter that
signals the willingness to trade safetly for more debug output?

Over all, the risk of this going *bang* is quite low I think.