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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2019-01-16 11:49:01 -0500
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2019-02-13 17:12:28 -0500
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@@ -5,6 +5,29 @@ A special test harness in `src/test/fuzz/` is provided for each fuzz target to
provide an easy entry point for fuzzers and the like. In this document we'll
describe how to use it with AFL and libFuzzer.
+## Preparing fuzzing
+
+AFL needs an input directory with examples, and an output directory where it
+will place examples that it found. These can be anywhere in the file system,
+we'll define environment variables to make it easy to reference them.
+
+libFuzzer will use the input directory as output directory.
+
+Extract the example seeds (or other starting inputs) into the inputs
+directory before starting fuzzing.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets
+export DIR_FUZZ_IN=$PWD/qa-assets/fuzz_seed_corpus
+```
+
+Only for AFL:
+
+```
+mkdir outputs
+export AFLOUT=$PWD/outputs
+```
+
## AFL
### Building AFL
@@ -23,7 +46,7 @@ export AFLPATH=$PWD
To build Bitcoin Core using AFL instrumentation (this assumes that the
`AFLPATH` was set as above):
```
-./configure --disable-ccache --disable-shared --enable-tests --enable-fuzz CC=${AFLPATH}/afl-gcc CXX=${AFLPATH}/afl-g++
+./configure --disable-ccache --disable-shared --enable-tests --enable-fuzz --disable-wallet --disable-bench --with-utils=no --with-daemon=no --with-libs=no --with-gui=no CC=${AFLPATH}/afl-gcc CXX=${AFLPATH}/afl-g++
export AFL_HARDEN=1
cd src/
make
@@ -39,31 +62,14 @@ binary will be instrumented in such a way that the AFL
features "persistent mode" and "deferred forkserver" can be used. See
https://github.com/mcarpenter/afl/tree/master/llvm_mode for details.
-### Preparing fuzzing
-
-AFL needs an input directory with examples, and an output directory where it
-will place examples that it found. These can be anywhere in the file system,
-we'll define environment variables to make it easy to reference them.
-
-```
-mkdir inputs
-AFLIN=$PWD/inputs
-mkdir outputs
-AFLOUT=$PWD/outputs
-```
-
-Example inputs are available from:
-
-- https://download.visucore.com/bitcoin/bitcoin_fuzzy_in.tar.xz
-- http://strateman.ninja/fuzzing.tar.xz
-
-Extract these (or other starting inputs) into the `inputs` directory before starting fuzzing.
-
### Fuzzing
To start the actual fuzzing use:
+
```
-$AFLPATH/afl-fuzz -i ${AFLIN} -o ${AFLOUT} -m52 -- test/fuzz/fuzz_target_foo
+export FUZZ_TARGET=fuzz_target_foo # Pick a fuzz_target
+mkdir ${AFLOUT}/${FUZZ_TARGET}
+$AFLPATH/afl-fuzz -i ${DIR_FUZZ_IN}/${FUZZ_TARGET} -o ${AFLOUT}/${FUZZ_TARGET} -m52 -- test/fuzz/${FUZZ_TARGET}
```
You may have to change a few kernel parameters to test optimally - `afl-fuzz`
@@ -74,10 +80,10 @@ will print an error and suggestion if so.
A recent version of `clang`, the address sanitizer and libFuzzer is needed (all
found in the `compiler-rt` runtime libraries package).
-To build the `test/test_bitcoin_fuzzy` executable run
+To build all fuzz targets with libFuzzer, run
```
-./configure --disable-ccache --enable-fuzz --with-sanitizers=fuzzer,address CC=clang CXX=clang++
+./configure --disable-ccache --disable-wallet --disable-bench --with-utils=no --with-daemon=no --with-libs=no --with-gui=no --enable-fuzz --with-sanitizers=fuzzer,address CC=clang CXX=clang++
make
```
@@ -86,3 +92,6 @@ interchangeably between libFuzzer and AFL.
See https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html#running on how to run the libFuzzer
instrumented executable.
+
+Alternatively run the script in `./test/fuzz/test_runner.py` and provide it
+with the `${DIR_FUZZ_IN}` created earlier.