Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new “gregkh_clanker_t1000” fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs.
Piquing my interest yesterday on the Linux kernel mailing list was this patch series that began with:
“I spent the time exercising some new fuzzing tools on the ksmbd and smb code purely because it’s something that is simple to set up and test locally with virtual machines, and in doing so, potentially found some minor problems for when you have an “untrusted” client.”
New fuzzing tools for the Linux kernel being explored by this Linux Foundation Fellow who has also been experimenting with various AI/LLM projects recently on GitHub.
Beyond those initial SMB/KSMBD patches, there have been a flow of other Linux kernel patches touching USB, HID, F2FS, LoongArch, WiFi, LEDs, and more that were done by Greg KH in the past 48 hours.
Over the past two days these patches have begun accumulating via Greg KH’s gregkh.git/clanker Git branch. Those patches in the “Clanker” branch all note as part of the Git tag:
“Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000”
It looks like this gregkh_clanker_t1000 tooling is uncovering a lot of kernel bugs so far. I haven’t seen any repository or sources on this new gregkh_clanker_t1000.
Clanker is said to be a derogatory, slang term for AI, robots, and automated technology. The T1000 presumably in reference to the Terminator T-1000.
