I am interested in looking into that however I myself am just getting started with exploring kernel pwn and therefore don't exactly know how a common setup looks like.

Your list of task is a good orientation but could you maybe point me to a e. g. challenge writeup that explains the steps you are looking to automate? If there is none, thats totally fine!

Hello, I recently started exploring kernel pwn as well, and I recommend this article here. It explains some basic environments setup and explanation about some popular Linux kernel mitigation and their corresponding exploit techniques.

https://lkmidas.github.io/posts/20210123-linux-kernel-pwn-part-1/

@ReeyaDono nice link. Also we can add the auto-generation(or just template?) of compress.sh/decompress.sh files from provided blogpost. They are useful when working with cpio-compressed initramfs(i.e. almost always). Adding this to to-do

@k4mp3t noted that all this turned out to be not a useful feature. vmlinux-to-elf already implements the extract-vmlinux logic, so pwninit would just become a wrapper of vmlinux-to-elf which does not sound reasonable.

Closing.