Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Fuzzing event loops

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 06/11/2017 06:47 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I wanted to share this idea about fuzzing event loops:
> 
> https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/09/node-fz-fuzzing-the-server-side-event-driven-architecture/
> 
> The idea is to expose ordering dependencies and atomicity bugs in
> event loop callbacks/coroutines by randomly shuffling the order in
> which fd handlers, timers, etc execute.
> 
> I'm not sure we'd find many bugs since QEMU tends to use big locks or
> request serialization when concurrency gets tricky in the block layer.
> Still, it's an interesting concept that we could apply in the future.
> 
> Stefan
> 

Sounds fun, probably too detailed for a GSoC/Outreachy project, right?
Do we have a page on the wiki for random "Hey, this might be nice..." ideas?

(Or is that a bad idea itself so we don't have a graveyard of 'not my
problem' projects?)

--js