netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost

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Message-Id: <20191024165907.d56f8050b5097639263c0a41@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:59:07 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>,
        Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
        Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:47:31 +0200 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com> wrote:

> > is it expected that the new kcov feature will be used elsewhere in the
> > kernel?
> >
> > If the latter, which are the expected subsystems?
> 
> Currently we encountered two cases where this is useful: USB and vhost
> workers. Most probably there are more subsystems that will benefit
> from this kcov extension to get better fuzzing coverage. I don't have
> a list of them, but the provided interface should be easy to use when
> more of such cases are encountered.

It would be helpful to add such a list to the changelog.  Best-effort
and approximate is OK - just to help people understand the eventual
usefulness of the proposal.