Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:24:28 +0200 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patchset extends kcov to allow collecting coverage from the USB
> subsystem and vhost workers. See the first patch description for details
> about the kcov extension. The other two patches apply this kcov extension
> to USB and vhost.
> 
> These patches have been used to enable coverage-guided USB fuzzing with
> syzkaller for the last few years

I find it surprising that this material is so focused on USB.  Is
there something unique about USB that gave rise to this situation, or
is it expected that the new kcov feature will be used elsewhere in the
kernel?

If the latter, which are the expected subsystems?