linux-ext4 - Re: Announcing the Berserker toolkit for (semi-)automated fs fuzz testing

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Date:	Sun, 6 May 2012 11:27:27 +0100
From:	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announcing the Berserker toolkit for (semi-)automated fs fuzz
 testing

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 04:39:04AM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote:
> This is an announcement of the first release of the Berserker toolkit
> for (semi-)automated fuzz testing and testcase minimization of Linux
> kernel filesystem implementations.

This looks interesting, and it's very necessary to find these bugs in
filesystem drivers to improve the security around virtualization and
untrusted disk images.

I wrote something similar a while back, trying to use systemtap to do
feedback-directed fuzz testing.  By putting a tracepoint on every line
in the filesystem module, you can find out how many lines of code are
actually executed when mounting/using the fuzzed filesystem and use
that as a cost function for feedback (maximizing the # of lines
executed, rather than blindly fuzzing).  Unfortunately it doesn't work
yet because of a bug in Linux[1].

Anyway I was going to say: why not use libguestfs to provide a simpler
framework for running KVM and the fuzzer?

Rich.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713248

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