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

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Tue Nov 10 03:14:55 UTC 2020


On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:

> 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?
> 

Mine, but more signoffs/acks are required.

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

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>



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