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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: peter.maydell@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Subject: [PULL 05/10] docs/fuzz: describe building fuzzers with enable-sanitizers
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:10:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721081055.14073-6-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200721081055.14073-1-thuth@redhat.com>

From: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Message-Id: <20200706195534.14962-3-alxndr@bu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/fuzzing.txt | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
index db5641de74..12bf6aa0ca 100644
--- a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ AddressSanitizer mmaps ~20TB of memory, as part of its detection. This results
 in a large page-map, and a much slower fork().
 
 To build the fuzzers, install a recent version of clang:
-Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed):
+Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed).
+Here, enable-sanitizers, is optional but it allows us to reliably detect bugs
+such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-frees, double-frees etc.
 
-    CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing
+    CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing \
+                                                --enable-sanitizers
 
 Fuzz targets are built similarly to system/softmmu:
 
-- 
2.18.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21  8:10 [PULL 00/10] qtest / fuzzer patches Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 01/10] scripts/oss-fuzz: Limit target list to i386-softmmu Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 02/10] fuzz: Fix leak when assembling datadir path string Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 03/10] gitlab-ci.yml: Add oss-fuzz build tests Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 04/10] fuzz: build without AddressSanitizer, by default Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 06/10] docs/fuzz: add information about useful libFuzzer flags Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 07/10] docs/fuzz: add instructions for generating a coverage report Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 08/10] MAINTAINERS: Extend the device fuzzing section Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 09/10] msf2: Unbreak device-list-properties for "msf-soc" Thomas Huth
2020-07-21  8:10 ` [PULL 10/10] hw: Mark nd_table[] misuse in realize methods FIXME Thomas Huth
2020-07-21 13:03 ` [PULL 00/10] qtest / fuzzer patches Peter Maydell

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