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1# fuzz testing
2
3This repository contains a binary used for fuzz testing.
4
5# Acknowledgments
6
7The fuzz setup with AFL++ comes from [Ryan Liptak's](https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/fuzzing-zig-code/) blog post. See [this example repo](https://github.com/squeek502/zig-fuzzing-example) too.
8
9# Prerequisites
10
11To build the fuzz binary we need the `afl-clang-lto` binary in the system path.
12The recommended way to get that is to [install AFL++](https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/stable/docs/INSTALL.md).
13
14If you don't want to install it system-wide you can also do this instead:
15```
16make PREFIX=$HOME/local install
17```
18then make sure that `$HOME/local/bin` is in your system path.
19
20If you installed LLVM from source as described in the [Zig wiki](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/How-to-build-LLVM,-libclang,-and-liblld-from-source#posix), do this instead:
21```
22LLVM_CONFIG=$HOME/local/llvm15-release/bin/llvm-config make PREFIX=$HOME/local install
23```
24
25# Build and run
26
27Once AFL++ is installed, build the fuzz binary:
28```
29$ zig build fuzz
30```
31
32Finally to run the fuzzer do this:
33```
34$ afl-fuzz -i - -o fuzz/outputs -- ./zig-out/bin/fuzz
35```
36
37Note that `afl-fuzz` might complain about core dumps being sent to an external utility (usually systemd).
38
39You'll have to do this as root:
40```
41# echo core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
42```
43
44`afl-fuzz` might also complain about the scaling governor, setting `AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ` as suggested is good enough:
45```
46$ AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ=1 afl-fuzz -i - -o fuzz/outputs -- ./zig-out/bin/fuzz
47```
48
49# Debugging a crash
50
51If `afl-fuzz` finds a crash it will be added to `fuzz/outputs/default/crashes.XYZ`.
52
53To debug the crash you can run the fuzz binary and giving it the content of the crash via stdin, for example:
54```
55$ ./zig-out/bin/fuzz < 'fuzz/outputs/default/crashes.2021-12-31-12:43:12/id:000000,sig:06,src:000004,time:210548,execs:1011599,op:havoc,rep:2'
56```