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Andrew Gunnerson ddcef31b96 fuzz: Fix initial corpus
e22f9f5676 removed all the old binary test
files, leaving broken symlinks in hfuzz_workspace. This commit adds the
source files for generating them from scratch.

This commit also replaces toml_edit with toml since the former cannot
deserialize u64 values.

Fixes: #532

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gunnerson <accounts+github@chiller3.com>
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Fuzzing

While avbroot's parsers are all memory-safe, it is still possible for panics or crashes to occur, for example due to excessive memory allocation, integer overflow, or division by zero. Fuzzing helps to identify these issues by randomizing inputs in a way that tries to increase code coverage.

Running the fuzzers

  1. Install the cargo honggfuzz commands.

    cargo install honggfuzz
    
  2. [Optional] Generate sample files to use as the initial fuzzing corpus.

    ./corpus/build.sh
    
  3. Pick a fuzz target to run. A fuzz target is the name of the source file in src/bin/ without the .rs extension.

    The list of targets can be queried programmatically with:

    cargo read-manifest | jq -r '.targets[].name'
    
  4. Run the fuzzer.

    cargo hfuzz run <fuzz target>
    

    This will run forever until it is manually killed. At the top of the screen, a summary section like the following is shown:

      Iterations : 31,243 [31.24k]
      Mode [1/3] : Feedback Driven Dry Run [2486/4085]
          Target : hfuzz_target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/bootimage
         Threads : 8, CPUs: 16, CPU%: 800% [50%/CPU]
           Speed : 36,126/sec [avg: 31,243]
         Crashes : 53 [unique: 1, blocklist: 0, verified: 0]
        Timeouts : 0 [1 sec]
     Corpus Size : 1,424, max: 24,576 bytes, init: 4,085 files
      Cov Update : 0 days 00 hrs 00 mins 00 secs ago
        Coverage : edge: 897/224,621 [0%] pc: 2 cmp: 34,736
    

    When a crash occurs, the Crashes counter will increment and the input data that triggered the crash will be written to hfuzz_workspace/<fuzz target>/*.fuzz. New files are only written for unique crashes.

  5. If a crash occurs, run the following command to trigger the crash in a debugger.

    cargo hfuzz run-debug <fuzz target> \
        hfuzz_workspace/<fuzz_target>/<input file>.fuzz
    

    This defaults to using rust-lldb. To use rust-gdb instead, set the HFUZZ_DEBUGGER environment variable to rust-gdb.

    Alternatively, just feed the input file to the appropriate avbroot command directly (eg. avbroot boot info -i hfuzz_workspace/<fuzz_target>/<input file>.fuzz for boot images).