[PATCH v3 0/2] security: add fault injection to LSM hooks

Aleksandr Nogikh aleksandrnogikh at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 19:06:27 UTC 2020


On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:35, Aleksandr Nogikh
<aleksandrnogikh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh at google.com>
>
> Fault injection capabilities[Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst]
> facilitate testing of the stability of the Linux kernel by providing
> means to force a number of kernel interfaces to return error
> codes. This patch series proposes adding such fault injection
> capability into LSM hooks.
>
> The intent is to make it possible to test whether the existing kernel
> code properly handles negative return values of LSM hooks. Syzbot
> [https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md] will
> automatically do that with the aid of instrumentation tools once these
> changes are merged.
> [...]

What tree should these changes go to?

Is there anyone else who is not on the recipient list but still might
be interested in the series?



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