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I am Dave, a Ph.D. student in the department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. I am a founding member of FICS (Florida Institute for Cybersecurity) Research. My research involves system infrastructure, security and storage. I am interested in Linux kernel hacking, compilers and machine learning stuffs. I also play guitars though not professionally when I am tired of coding:)
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Author Archives: daveti
Pitfalls in negative indexing in C
Negative indexing in C, such as a[-1], is legit, although rarely used. There are reasons (pitfalls) why negative indexing is not recommended. This post discusses these pitfalls when using negative indexing (for fun). 1. Negative indexing within the bound In … Continue reading
USB gadget functionalities in Android
I started working on Android stuffs this summer. While I mainly work on the USB layer within the Linux kernel, I do sometimes need to look into the Android framework, to see if I could achieve my goal from the … Continue reading
Understanding kcov – play with -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc from the user space
kcov is a kernel feature used to support syzkaller[1]. To provide the code coverage information from the kernel itself, the GCC compiler was patched to instrument the kernel image[2]. The kernel itself was also patched to enable this feature where … Continue reading
SGX Bug SKL012 and CHIPSEC
Intel SGX CPU (staring from Skylake) has been there for while. The good news is that there is still no known exploitation against SGX self yet, though there are some exploitations in the enclave code and Intel SGX SDK. In … Continue reading
getdelays – get delay accounting information from the kernel
Top may be the most common tool in use whenever a preformance issue is hit. It is simple, quick and dumb. Besides the heavy metal stuffs like perf and gprof, another really useful and simple tool is getdelays, which provides … Continue reading
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Tagged getdelays, kernel, Linux, netlink, Performance, taskstats
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Making USB Great Again with USBFILTER – a USB layer firewall in the Linux kernel
Our paper “Making USB Great Again with USBFILTER” has been accepted by USENIX Security’16. This post provides a summary of usbfilter. For details, please read the damn paper or download the presentation video/slides from USENIX website. I will head to … Continue reading
Fedora Upgrade from 21 to 24
After almost 5 hours of upgrading, my server has been successfully upgraded from Fedora 21 to Fedora 24, which uses the latest stable kernel 4.6. There is a online post demonstrating how to upgrade from Fedora 21 to 23 using … Continue reading
