Faults in Linux 3.x

Prior studies have used tools to find bugs in the Linux kernel versions 1 and 2. In this article, I share the results for faults in 3.x versions. This study is a continuation of the work by Chou et al. [1] for versions 1.0 to 2.4.1 and Palix et al. [2a–c] for 2.6 versions. I explain the types of bugs studied, trends for these bugs over newer versions, and how the reports were generated across the different Linux kernel versions.