Re: [Announce] Strace Test

Nikita Danilov
2004-02-19T10:07:44Z

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.