perf_fuzzer perf_event syscall fuzzer

The perf_fuzzer tool automatically tests the perf_event_open() system call and attempts to find mostly-valid inputs that potentially crash (or worse) the Linux kernel.

The code has already found numerous denial of service bugs and at least one local root exploit.

I'm currently working on a paper describing how things work in more detail. I will post that when it is ready.

The perf_fuzzer is available as part of the perf_event_test test suite.

Currently development is done via git at https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests ; you can check out a version of the development tree via:
git clone git://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests

Read the README
See here for a list of bugs found.
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