Re: [PATCH 2/4] docs/fuzz: describe building fuzzers with enable-sanitizers

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 7/6/20 9:55 PM, Alexander Bulekov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@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 324d2cd92b..382ade974e 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:
>  
>