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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-02-24 11:38:54 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request' into staging
Pull request This pull request contains a virtio-blk/scsi performance optimization, event loop scalability improvements, and a qtest-based device fuzzing framework. I am including the fuzzing patches because I have reviewed them and Thomas Huth is currently away on leave. # gpg: Signature made Sat 22 Feb 2020 08:50:05 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 8695A8BFD3F97CDAAC35775A9CA4ABB381AB73C8 # gpg: Good signature from "Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>" [full] # gpg: aka "Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>" [full] # Primary key fingerprint: 8695 A8BF D3F9 7CDA AC35 775A 9CA4 ABB3 81AB 73C8 * remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request: (31 commits) fuzz: add documentation to docs/devel/ fuzz: add virtio-scsi fuzz target fuzz: add virtio-net fuzz target fuzz: add i440fx fuzz targets fuzz: add configure flag --enable-fuzzing fuzz: add target/fuzz makefile rules fuzz: add support for qos-assisted fuzz targets fuzz: support for fork-based fuzzing. main: keep rcu_atfork callback enabled for qtest exec: keep ram block across fork when using qtest fuzz: add fuzzer skeleton libqos: move useful qos-test funcs to qos_external libqos: split qos-test and libqos makefile vars libqos: rename i2c_send and i2c_recv qtest: add in-process incoming command handler libqtest: make bufwrite rely on the TransportOps libqtest: add a layer of abstraction to send/recv qtest: add qtest_server_send abstraction fuzz: add FUZZ_TARGET module type module: check module wasn't already initialized ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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+= Fuzzing =
+
+== Introduction ==
+
+This document describes the virtual-device fuzzing infrastructure in QEMU and
+how to use it to implement additional fuzzers.
+
+== Basics ==
+
+Fuzzing operates by passing inputs to an entry point/target function. The
+fuzzer tracks the code coverage triggered by the input. Based on these
+findings, the fuzzer mutates the input and repeats the fuzzing.
+
+To fuzz QEMU, we rely on libfuzzer. Unlike other fuzzers such as AFL, libfuzzer
+is an _in-process_ fuzzer. For the developer, this means that it is their
+responsibility to ensure that state is reset between fuzzing-runs.
+
+== Building the fuzzers ==
+
+NOTE: If possible, build a 32-bit binary. When forking, the 32-bit fuzzer is
+much faster, since the page-map has a smaller size. This is due to the fact that
+AddressSanitizer mmaps ~20TB of memory, as part of its detection. This results
+in a large page-map, and a much slower fork().
+
+To build the fuzzers, install a recent version of clang:
+Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed):
+
+ CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing
+
+Fuzz targets are built similarly to system/softmmu:
+
+ make i386-softmmu/fuzz
+
+This builds ./i386-softmmu/qemu-fuzz-i386
+
+The first option to this command is: --fuzz_taget=FUZZ_NAME
+To list all of the available fuzzers run qemu-fuzz-i386 with no arguments.
+
+eg:
+ ./i386-softmmu/qemu-fuzz-i386 --fuzz-target=virtio-net-fork-fuzz
+
+Internally, libfuzzer parses all arguments that do not begin with "--".
+Information about these is available by passing -help=1
+
+Now the only thing left to do is wait for the fuzzer to trigger potential
+crashes.
+
+== Adding a new fuzzer ==
+Coverage over virtual devices can be improved by adding additional fuzzers.
+Fuzzers are kept in tests/qtest/fuzz/ and should be added to
+tests/qtest/fuzz/Makefile.include
+
+Fuzzers can rely on both qtest and libqos to communicate with virtual devices.
+
+1. Create a new source file. For example ``tests/qtest/fuzz/foo-device-fuzz.c``.
+
+2. Write the fuzzing code using the libqtest/libqos API. See existing fuzzers
+for reference.
+
+3. Register the fuzzer in ``tests/fuzz/Makefile.include`` by appending the
+corresponding object to fuzz-obj-y
+
+Fuzzers can be more-or-less thought of as special qtest programs which can
+modify the qtest commands and/or qtest command arguments based on inputs
+provided by libfuzzer. Libfuzzer passes a byte array and length. Commonly the
+fuzzer loops over the byte-array interpreting it as a list of qtest commands,
+addresses, or values.
+
+= Implementation Details =
+
+== The Fuzzer's Lifecycle ==
+
+The fuzzer has two entrypoints that libfuzzer calls. libfuzzer provides it's
+own main(), which performs some setup, and calls the entrypoints:
+
+LLVMFuzzerInitialize: called prior to fuzzing. Used to initialize all of the
+necessary state
+
+LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput: called for each fuzzing run. Processes the input and
+resets the state at the end of each run.
+
+In more detail:
+
+LLVMFuzzerInitialize parses the arguments to the fuzzer (must start with two
+dashes, so they are ignored by libfuzzer main()). Currently, the arguments
+select the fuzz target. Then, the qtest client is initialized. If the target
+requires qos, qgraph is set up and the QOM/LIBQOS modules are initialized.
+Then the QGraph is walked and the QEMU cmd_line is determined and saved.
+
+After this, the vl.c:qemu__main is called to set up the guest. There are
+target-specific hooks that can be called before and after qemu_main, for
+additional setup(e.g. PCI setup, or VM snapshotting).
+
+LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput: Uses qtest/qos functions to act based on the fuzz
+input. It is also responsible for manually calling the main loop/main_loop_wait
+to ensure that bottom halves are executed and any cleanup required before the
+next input.
+
+Since the same process is reused for many fuzzing runs, QEMU state needs to
+be reset at the end of each run. There are currently two implemented
+options for resetting state:
+1. Reboot the guest between runs.
+ Pros: Straightforward and fast for simple fuzz targets.
+ Cons: Depending on the device, does not reset all device state. If the
+ device requires some initialization prior to being ready for fuzzing
+ (common for QOS-based targets), this initialization needs to be done after
+ each reboot.
+ Example target: i440fx-qtest-reboot-fuzz
+2. Run each test case in a separate forked process and copy the coverage
+ information back to the parent. This is fairly similar to AFL's "deferred"
+ fork-server mode [3]
+ Pros: Relatively fast. Devices only need to be initialized once. No need
+ to do slow reboots or vmloads.
+ Cons: Not officially supported by libfuzzer. Does not work well for devices
+ that rely on dedicated threads.
+ Example target: virtio-net-fork-fuzz