It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Debugging the software in a complex real-time system is particularly challenging because the manifestation of a bug is frequently far removed from the actual occurrence of the bug-in both time and ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

Kprobes is a mechanism used to register breakpoints and corresponding handlers. After enabling Kprobes support in the kernel, we can debug any instruction at any kernel address. This article explains ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHAT: Digi-Key’s Continuing Education Center presents Linux Kernel Debugging. The lecturer for this session is Michael Anderson who is currently CTO and Chief Scientist for The PTR ...

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Topic ===== local root exploit in linux kernel Problem Description ===== he Linux kernel has a security flaw that is known as ptrace/modprobe bug: The local attacker can use ptrace and attach to a ...