On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Andy Chu <[email protected]> wrote: >> yeah, i'd like to see asan support in toybox's makefile; i'm starting >> to get a small pile of bug reports from the folks running asan Android >> system images, but it's going to be inconvenient to have to deal with >> them on the device rather than just on the host. > > How are they generating test input?
this isn't from fuzzing. > When you say "folks running", is > that an automated or manual process? for toybox, afaik, it's just people noticing toybox problems while investigating other things. > Are the bug reports public, and > are they in toybox or elsewhere on the system image? the ones i'm talking about are just toybox ones. > In case it got lost, these patches I sent out in March added ASAN > support to Toybox's Makefile, as well as scripts for running tests > under the ASAN-instrumented binaries (and other LLVM sanitizers) > > http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2016-March/008147.html no, i remember that and my plan is to give it a try as soon as i have time. which is why the longer version of my plan is "mention it on the list knowing i won't get round to it for a while, and maybe it'll be easier by the time i get there anyway" :-) > I think Rob didn't agree with it being a big lump, which is some what > understandable. In my defense, if something is in good shape, I will > be very careful and make the minimum changes. If something is in bad > shape, as the toybox tests are, I don't feel bad about rewriting it -- > it deserves it. > > In other words, if I find 5 bugs in the process of adding a feature, > I'm going to take more liberties in re-architecting it... and those > patches fixed way more than 5 bugs in the test harness, some of which > I'm sure are still there. > > Andy -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
