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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

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