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I couldn't find anything at every 10 seconds (wouldnt that be 8k issues per day?) This reporting list has a few per day https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!for
by edoceo 6y ago
I couldn't find anything at every 10 seconds (wouldnt that be 8k issues per day?) This reporting list has a few per day
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/syzkaller-bugs https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/syzkaller-bugs
Isn't testing supposed to find bugs? And aren't fuzzers identifying issues that /might/ exist in theory but dont manifest in practice?
From your assessment I'm surprised my Linux boxen don't crash every day and really surprised I had one stay online for five years - but, many things things about Linux surprise me.
- jeffbee 6y agoTesting is supposed to prevent bugs from being committed. Finding the bugs in released software after the fact is the worst possible process. The fact is that people discover and fix bugs, and then years later someone else commits the same mistake again, and nothing prevents this because the kernel has literally zero pre-commit unit tests. Here's an example (thread by the author of syzkaller). https://twitter.com/dvyukov/status/1169544165023240194 https://twitter.com/dvyukov/status/1169544165023240194
- edoceo 6y agoIt sounds like you've got a good handle on things, have you tried sending any patches?