Google Is Uncovering Hundreds Of Race Conditions Within The Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Is Uncovering Hundreds Of Race Conditions Within The Linux Kernel

One of the contributions Google is working on for the upstream Linux kernel is a new "sanitizer". Over the years Google has worked on AddressSanitizer for finding memory corruption bugs, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer for undefined behavior within code, and other sanitizers. The Linux kernel has been exposed to this as well as other open-source projects while their newest sanitizer is KCSAN and focused as a Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-KCSAN-Sanitizer

[tildearrow]

Great. Let's hope some of them are responsible for the Mesa hangs with my AMD card!

[horizonbrave]

so is Google evil or not??

[grigi]

so is Google evil or not??

Wow, that's a narrow minded approach. Google spans multiple countries, multiple teams, with multiple targets.
So, undoubtedly there will be people that do good, and people that do evil.

[S.Pam]

Wow, that's a narrow minded approach. Google spans multiple countries, multiple teams, with multiple targets.
So, undoubtedly there will be people that do good, and people that do evil.

Well, following that any positive value (good) multiplied by a negative (evil) becomes negative, it would mean Google is evil

[grigi]

Could be, could be… Personally I think they are a public company, and there is no such thing as a public company that's goal is to do "good".
So often they end up doing more evil than good by accident/arrogance.

[Volta]

If you would read more carefully there may be false positives as well.

[Slartifartblast]

so is Google evil or not??

Self interest, they make extensive use of the Linux kernel. I think I'm correct in this quote and attributing it to something Torvalds said..."I do the most selfless of things for the most selfish reasons" or something like that.

[Guest]

Well, following that any positive value (good) multiplied by a negative (evil) becomes negative, it would mean Google is evil

Well,.. depends if number of negative contributions to the world is odd or even. Negative value multiplied by negative value becomes positive value ;-)

[Guest]

Good, concurrency bugs are some of the worst and most difficult to debug. The only way to reduce them is by proper planning and design during the software development stage.