From: Alexander Bulekov <alx...@bu.edu> Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alx...@bu.edu> Message-Id: <20200706195534.14962-3-alx...@bu.edu> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- docs/devel/fuzzing.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt index db5641de74..12bf6aa0ca 100644 --- a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt +++ b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt @@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ 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): +Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed). +Here, enable-sanitizers, is optional but it allows us to reliably detect bugs +such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-frees, double-frees etc. - CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing + CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing \ + --enable-sanitizers Fuzz targets are built similarly to system/softmmu: -- 2.18.1
