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1# Reproducing libFuzzer and AFL crashes
2
3*** note
4**Requirements:** For Windows, you must convert the forward slashes (/) to
5backslashes (\\) in the commands below and use `set` command instead of `export`
6to set the environment variable (step 4). Note that these commands are intended
7to be used with cmd.exe, not PowerShell. Also, you may find [these tips] on how
8to debug an ASAN instrumented binary helpful.
9***
10
11[TOC]
12
13## Crashes reported as Reproducible
14
15The majority of the bugs reported by ClusterFuzz have **Reproducible** label.
16That means there is a testcase that can be used to reliably reproduce the crash.
17
181. Download the testcase from ClusterFuzz. If you are CCed on an issue filed by
19   ClusterFuzz, a link to it is next to "Reproducer testcase" in the bug
20   description.
21
22   For the rest of this walkthrough, we call the path of this
23   file: `$TESTCASE_PATH` and the fuzz target you want to reproduce a
24   crash on: `$FUZZER_NAME` (provided as "Fuzz Target" in the bug
25   description).
26
272. Generate gn build configuration:
28
29```
30gn args out/fuzz
31```
32
33   This will open up an editor. Copy the gn configuration parameters from the
34   values provided in `GN Config` section in the ClusterFuzz testcase report.
35
36
373. Build the fuzzer:
38
39```
40autoninja -C out/fuzz $FUZZER_NAME
41```
42
434. Set the `*SAN_OPTIONS` environment variable as provided in the
44   `Crash Stacktrace` section in the testcase report.
45   Here is an example value of `ASAN_OPTIONS` that is similar to its value on
46   ClusterFuzz:
47
48```
49export ASAN_OPTIONS=redzone=256:print_summary=1:handle_sigill=1:allocator_release_to_os_interval_ms=500:print_suppressions=0:strict_memcmp=1:allow_user_segv_handler=0:use_sigaltstack=1:handle_sigfpe=1:handle_sigbus=1:detect_stack_use_after_return=0:alloc_dealloc_mismatch=0:detect_leaks=0:print_scariness=1:allocator_may_return_null=1:handle_abort=1:check_malloc_usable_size=0:detect_container_overflow=0:quarantine_size_mb=256:detect_odr_violation=0:symbolize=1:handle_segv=1:fast_unwind_on_fatal=0
50```
51
525. Run the fuzz target:
53
54```
55out/fuzz/$FUZZER_NAME -runs=100 $TESTCASE_PATH
56```
57
58[File a bug] if you run into any issues.
59
60## Symbolizing stack traces
61
62Stack traces from ASAN builds are not symbolized by default. However, you
63can symbolize them by piping the output into:
64
65```
66src/tools/valgrind/asan/asan_symbolize.py
67```
68
69## Crashes reported as Unreproducible
70
71ClusterFuzz generally does not report issues that it cannot reliably reproduce,
72unless the following condition is met. If a certain crash is occurring often
73enough, such a crash might be reported with **Unreproducible** label and an
74explicit clarification that there is no convenient way to reproduce it. There
75are two ways to work with such crashes.
76
771. Try a speculative fix based on the stacktrace. Once the fix is landed, wait a
78   couple days and then check Crash Statistics section on the ClusterFuzz
79   testcase report page. If the fix works out, you will see that the crash is
80   not happening anymore. If the crash does not occur again for a little while,
81   ClusterFuzz will automatically close the issue as Verified.
82
832. (libFuzzer only) Try to reproduce the whole fuzzing session. This workflow is
84   very similar to the one described above for the **Reproducible** crashes. The
85   only differences are:
86
87  * On step 1, instead of downloading a single testcase, you need to download
88    corpus backup. This can be done using the following command:
89```
90gsutil cp gs://clusterfuzz-libfuzzer-backup/corpus/libfuzzer/$FUZZER_NAME/latest.zip .
91```
92
93  * Alternatively, you can navigate to the following URL in your browser and
94    download the `latest.zip` file:
95```
96https://pantheon.corp.google.com/storage/browser/clusterfuzz-libfuzzer-backup/corpus/libfuzzer/$FUZZER_NAME
97```
98
99  * Create an empty directory and unpack the corpus into it.
100  * Follow steps 2-4 in the **Reproducible** section above.
101  * On step 5, use the following command:
102
103```
104out/fuzz/$FUZZER_NAME -timeout=25 -rss_limit_mb=2048 -print_final_stats=1 $CORPUS_DIRECTORY_FROM_THE_PREVIOUS_STEP
105```
106
107  * Wait and hope that the fuzzer will crash.
108
109Waiting for a crash to occur may take some time (up to 1hr), but if it happens,
110you will be able to test the fix locally and/or somehow debug the issue.
111
112## Minimizing a crash input (optional)
113
114ClusterFuzz does crash input minimization automatically, and a typical crash
115report has two testcases available for downloading:
116
117* An original testcase that has triggered the crash;
118* A minimized testcase that is smaller than the original but triggers the same
119  crash.
120
121If you would like to further minimize a testcase, run the fuzz target with the
122two additional arguments:
123
124* `-minimize_crash=1`
125* `-exact_artifact_path=<output_filename_for_minimized_testcase>`
126
127The full command would be:
128
129```
130out/fuzz/$FUZZER_NAME -minimize_crash=1 -exact_artifact_path=<minimized_testcase_path> $TESTCASE_PATH
131```
132
133This might be useful for large testcases that make it hard to identify a root
134cause of a crash. You can leave the minimization running locally for a while
135(e.g. overnight) for better results.
136
137
138[File a bug]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry?components=Tools%3EStability%3ElibFuzzer&comment=What%20problem%20are%20you%20seeing
139[these tips]: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerWindowsPort#debugging
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