Using syzkaller to detect programming bugs in the Linux kernel | Linux Today

Using syzkaller to detect programming bugs in the Linux kernel

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Andre Almeida
Apr 20, 2020

Syzkaller is a valuable tool widely adopted by the kernel community to detect bugs in the kernel. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to install the tool and starting using it to improve our code base, and detect real programming bugs in the Linux kernel code.

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Andre Almeida

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