This issue will track whats required to switch to 6.0.0.

The patches for a 6.0.0 kAFL enabled kernel have been developed @schumilo:

• schumilo's kafl.linux kernel
• schumilo's QEMU-Nyx

The patches have been pushed to kAFL repos:

• kafl.qemu:kafl_stable
• kafl.linux:kvm-nyx-6.0

TODO

• Ansible deploy's kernel role executes a support_test.c to check for a kAFL compatible kernel. This check fails on an existing 6.0.0 kAFL kernel:
  

What actually fails is the FDL detection, since it has been removed from the kernel, and replaced by the in-kernel dirty page tracker.

• update kafl.linux release process to build our deb packages based on Ubuntu 22.04's config. this will help enabling a maximum of drivers that an Ubuntu user would expect with the normal distro kernel. Also related deploy check for pmu_name fails for alderlake cpus #173 (comment)
• we need to create a staging branch to update support_test.c, continue the development there and avoid breaking master, which still relies on 5.10.73 kernel