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author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-01-27 11:16:23 -0500 |
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committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-01-30 08:37:27 -0500 |
commit | d71fc474385281453eaa93522479d32af85c94ef (patch) | |
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Update documentation and testing integration for fuzzing
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diff --git a/doc/HACKING/Fuzzing.md b/doc/HACKING/Fuzzing.md index 36f0fc4f5e..f5502b3307 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/Fuzzing.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/Fuzzing.md @@ -1,12 +1,53 @@ = Fuzzing Tor +== The simple version (no fuzzing, only tests) + +Check out fuzzing-corpora, and set TOR_FUZZ_CORPORA to point to the place +where you checked it out. + To run the fuzzing test cases in a deterministic fashion, use: make fuzz - [I've turned this off for now. - NM] -To build the fuzzing harness binaries, use: - make fuzzers +== Different kinds of fuzzing + +Right now we support three different kinds of fuzzer. + +First, there's American Fuzzy Lop (AFL), a fuzzer that works by forking +a target binary and passing it lots of different inputs on stdin. It's the +trickiest one to set up, so I'll be describing it more below. + +Second, there's libFuzzer, a llvm-based fuzzer that you link in as a library, +and it runs a target function over and over. To use this one, you'll need to +have a reasonably recent clang and libfuzzer installed. At that point, you +just build with --enable-expensive-hardening and --enable-libfuzzer. That +will produce a set of binaries in src/test/fuzz/lf-fuzz-* . These programs +take as input a series of directories full of fuzzing examples. For more +information on libfuzzer, see http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html + +Third, there's Google's OSS-Fuzz infrastructure, which expects to get all of +its. For more on this, see https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz and the +projects/tor subdirectory. You'll need to mess around with Docker a bit to +test this one out; it's meant to run on Google's infrastructure. + +In all cases, you'll need some starting examples to give the fuzzer when it +starts out. There's a set in the "fuzzing-corpora" git repository. Try +setting TOR_FUZZ_CORPORA to point to a checkout of that repository + +== Writing Tor fuzzers + +A tor fuzzing harness should have: +* a fuzz_init() function to set up any necessary global state. +* a fuzz_main() function to receive input and pass it to a parser. +* a fuzz_cleanup() function to clear global state. + +Most fuzzing frameworks will produce many invalid inputs - a tor fuzzing +harness should rejecting invalid inputs without crashing or behaving badly. + +But the fuzzing harness should crash if tor fails an assertion, triggers a +bug, or accesses memory it shouldn't. This helps fuzzing frameworks detect +"interesting" cases. + == Guided Fuzzing with AFL @@ -47,7 +88,7 @@ don't care about memory limits. To Run: mkdir -p src/test/fuzz/fuzz_http_findings - ../afl/afl-fuzz -i src/test/fuzz/data/http -x src/test/fuzz/dict/http -o src/test/fuzz/fuzz_http_findings -m <asan-memory-limit> -- src/test/fuzz_dir + ../afl/afl-fuzz -i ${TOR_FUZZ_CORPORA}/http -o src/test/fuzz/fuzz_http_findings -m <asan-memory-limit> -- src/test/fuzz_dir AFL has a multi-core mode, check the documentation for details. @@ -57,20 +98,6 @@ macOS (OS X) requires slightly more preparation, including: * using afl-clang (or afl-clang-fast from the llvm directory) * disabling external crash reporting (AFL will guide you through this step) -== Writing Tor fuzzers - -A tor fuzzing harness should have: -* a fuzz_init() function to set up any necessary global state. -* a fuzz_main() function to receive input and pass it to a parser. -* a fuzz_cleanup() function to clear global state. - -Most fuzzing frameworks will produce many invalid inputs - a tor fuzzing -harness should rejecting invalid inputs without crashing or behaving badly. - -But the fuzzing harness should crash if tor fails an assertion, triggers a -bug, or accesses memory it shouldn't. This helps fuzzing frameworks detect -"interesting" cases. - == Triaging Issues Crashes are usually interesting, particularly if using AFL_HARDEN=1 and --enable-expensive-hardening. Sometimes crashes are due to bugs in the harness code. |