• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a general-purpose fault injection system for Linux loadable kernel modules. The fault injection system enables software developers and testers to inject various kinds of faults easily into user-specified kernel modules in user-controlled manner. The proposed system also provides workload generation in order to make injected faults be exposed effectively, By experiments, we show that the fault injection system correctly injects faults into Linux kernel modules. The proposed system can be utilized as a useful tool for testing during kernel module development It is also useful for studies on kernel behaviour analysis and fault isolation and recovery.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.181-190
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• 2009

Module is an object file that can be loaded into operating system dynamically and has complete privileged access to all resources in kernel. Therefore trivial misuses in a module may cause critical system halts or deadlock situations. In this paper, we propose Kernel Resource Protector(KRP) scheme to reduce the various problems caused by module. KRP provides protections of a variety of kernel resources such as memory, major number and work queue resource. We implement the scheme onto linux kernel 2.6.18, and experimental results show that our scheme can protect kernel resources effectively.