[PATCH v6] kernel: add kcov code coverage

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov at google.com
Mon Jan 25 05:03:55 PST 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
> kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
> (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
> that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
> system. A notable user-space example is AFL
> (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
> widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
> support.

Kirill, I export kcov file as 0600 now.

Any more comments?

Andrew, will you take this to mm? Or how does it happen?



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