AFL has an alternative llvm-base instrumentation mode, which has much lower
overhead than the traditional afl-gcc.
One extra ability is to chose exactly where the master process gets
initialised to, before being forked for testing. This point is chosen after
the call to LLVMFuzzerInitialize(), so the stack isn't being remapped
executable for every test.
Another extra ability is to feed multiple inputs into a single test process,
to reduce the number of fork() calls required overall. Two caveats are that if
stdin is used for data, it must be unbuffered, and if input is passed via a
command line parameter, the underlying file must be opened and closed on each
iteration.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This is rather faster for afl-fuzz to arrange than using an explicit file
parameter. Also update the README to recommend using a tmpfs for findings_dir
which reduces disk load and is more performant.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Andrew Cooper
Wei Liu