subject:"\[Xen\-devel\] \[PATCH 04\/10\] tools\/insn\-fuzz\: Avoid making use of static data"

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 04/10] tools/insn-fuzz: Avoid making use of static data

2017-03-27 Thread Jan Beulich

>>> On 27.03.17 at 11:56, wrote: > AFL has a measure of stability, where it passes the same corpus into the > fuzzing harness and observes whether the execution path changes from before. > Any instability in the fuzzing harness reduces its effectiveness, as an >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 04/10] tools/insn-fuzz: Avoid making use of static data

2017-03-27 Thread Andrew Cooper

AFL has a measure of stability, where it passes the same corpus into the fuzzing harness and observes whether the execution path changes from before. Any instability in the fuzzing harness reduces its effectiveness, as an observed crash may not reliably be caused by the original corpus. In