Course: LFD440 Linux Kernel Debugging and Security

About this Course:

• • This instructor-led course focuses on the important tools used for debugging and monitoring the kernel, and how security features are implemented and controlled.

Course Goals/Skills:

• This four day course includes extensive hands-on exercises and demonstrations designed to give you the necessary tools to develop and debug Linux kernel code.
• Introduction
  Preliminaries
  How to Work in OSS Projects **
  Kernel Features
  Monitoring and Debugging
  Printk
  The proc Filesystem **
  kprobes
  Ftrace
  Perf
  eBPF
  Crash
  kexec
  Kernel Core Dumps
  Virtualization**
  QEMU
  Linux Kernel Debugging Tools
  Embedded Linux**
  Notifiers**
  CPU Frequency Scaling**
  Netlink Sockets**
  Kernel Deprecated Interfaces
  Introduction to Linux Kernel Security
  Linux Security Modules (LSM)
  SELinux
  AppArmor
  Netfilter
  The Virtual File System
  Filesystems in User-Space (FUSE)**
  Journaling Filesystems**
  Closing and Evaluation Survey
  Kernel Architecture I
  Kernel Programming Preview
  Modules
  Kernel Architecture II
  Kernel Configuration and Compilation
  Kernel Style and General Considerations
  Race Conditions and Synchronization Methods
  Memory Addressing
  Memory Allocation

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