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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tools/fuzz: add AFL stub program for x86 insn emulator fuzzer
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:18:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124171820.usctmtp3q6roxgnf@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22663.35148.446698.237437@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:05:16PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH 2/4] tools/fuzz: add AFL stub program for x86 insn emulator fuzzer"):
> > This is a basic program to call into the unified fuzzing function.
> ...
> > +    fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY, 0);
> > +    assert(fd != -1);
> > +    size = read(fd, input, sizeof(input));
> 
> Why do you use open and read here rather than fopen and fread ?
> 

No particular reason.

> If you use read you ought to put it in a loop to cope with potential
> partial reads.
> 

Does fread have better properties than read? I think to deal with short
read we would need to stat the file to get actual size for both fread
and read, right? If so I will just stick with read and put that in a
loop.

Wei.

> Ian.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-20 12:11 [PATCH 0/4] fuzz: basic AFL support Wei Liu
2017-01-20 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] tools/fuzz: add missing dependency in x86 insn fuzzer build rule Wei Liu
2017-01-20 12:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] tools/fuzz: add AFL stub program for x86 insn emulator fuzzer Wei Liu
2017-01-24 10:09   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-24 16:43     ` Wei Liu
2017-01-24 17:05   ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-24 17:18     ` Wei Liu [this message]
2017-01-24 17:22       ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-24 17:25         ` Andrew Cooper
2017-01-24 17:27           ` Wei Liu
2017-01-24 17:30           ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-24 17:37             ` Wei Liu
2017-01-24 17:46               ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-24 17:28         ` Wei Liu
2017-01-20 12:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] tools/fuzz: add AFL stub program for libefl fuzzer Wei Liu
2017-01-24 10:10   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-20 12:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] tools/fuzz: add README.afl Wei Liu
2017-01-24 19:27   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-01-25  9:49     ` Wei Liu
2017-01-25  9:51     ` George Dunlap
2017-01-25  9:54       ` Wei Liu
2017-01-24 18:18 ` [PATCH 0/4] fuzz: basic AFL support Julien Grall
2017-01-24 18:56   ` Wei Liu
2017-01-24 19:00     ` Stefano Stabellini

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