By default, -fsanitize=fuzzer instruments all code with coverage information. However, this means that libfuzzer will track coverage over hundreds of source files that are unrelated to virtual-devices. This means that libfuzzer will optimize inputs for coverage observed in timer code, memory APIs etc. This slows down the fuzzer and stores many inputs that are not relevant to the actual virtual-devices.
With this change, clang will only instrument a subset of the compiled code, that is directly related to virtual-devices. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alx...@bu.edu> --- configure | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index debd50c085..40412bcfcf 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -6089,6 +6089,10 @@ if test "$fuzzing" = "yes" ; then # If LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE is set, assume we are running on OSS-Fuzz, and the # needed CFLAGS have already been provided if test -z "${LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE+xxx}" ; then + # Specify a filter to only instrument code that is directly related to + # virtual-devices. + QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS -fsanitize-coverage-allowlist=$source_path/scripts/oss-fuzz/instrumentation-filter" + # Add CFLAGS to tell clang to add fuzzer-related instrumentation to all the # compiled code. QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS -fsanitize=fuzzer-no-link" -- 2.28.0