Re: [Announce] Strace Test

[Nikita Danilov]

dan carpenter writes:
 > Good evening,
 > 
 > I'm happy to announce the initial public release of 
 > Strace Test.  I believe Strace Test is the most 
 > aggressive general purpose kernel tester available.
 > Strace Test generally crashes my system within 
 > 5 minutes (2.6.1-rc2).
 > 
 > Strace Test uses a modified version of strace 4.5.1.  
 > Instead of printing out information about system calls, 
 > the modified version calls the syscalls with improper 
 > values.

It immediately DoSes kernel by calling sys_sysctl() with huge nlen:
printk() consumes all CPU.

Nikita.
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