[llvm] [libfuzzer][docs] Update and clarify Output section (PR #125075)

Paweł Bylica via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jan 30 07:39:14 PST 2025


https://github.com/chfast created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/125075

In the documentation page for the libfuzzer update the example snippets of outputs. They are now slightly different than what is documented.

Improve the documentation of the output section `L:`. It now shows two numbers.

Closes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/42571.

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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:28:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [libfuzzer][docs] Update and clarify Output section

In the documentation page for the libfuzzer update the example snippets
of outputs. They are now slightly different than what is documented.

Improve the documentation of the output section `L:`. It now shows two
numbers.

Closes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/42571.
---
 llvm/docs/LibFuzzer.rst | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/docs/LibFuzzer.rst b/llvm/docs/LibFuzzer.rst
index 9e34530e7e3e78..2137740896ddb2 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/LibFuzzer.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/LibFuzzer.rst
@@ -354,16 +354,18 @@ Output
 
 During operation the fuzzer prints information to ``stderr``, for example::
 
-  INFO: Seed: 1523017872
-  INFO: Loaded 1 modules (16 guards): [0x744e60, 0x744ea0),
-  INFO: -max_len is not provided, using 64
+  INFO: Running with entropic power schedule (0xFF, 100).
+  INFO: Seed: 1434179311
+  INFO: Loaded 1 modules   (8 inline 8-bit counters): 8 [0x5f03d189be90, 0x5f03d189be98),
+  INFO: Loaded 1 PC tables (8 PCs): 8 [0x5f03d189be98,0x5f03d189bf18),
+  INFO: -max_len is not provided; libFuzzer will not generate inputs larger than 4096 bytes
   INFO: A corpus is not provided, starting from an empty corpus
-  #0	READ units: 1
-  #1	INITED cov: 3 ft: 2 corp: 1/1b exec/s: 0 rss: 24Mb
-  #3811	NEW    cov: 4 ft: 3 corp: 2/2b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 1 MS: 5 ChangeBit-ChangeByte-ChangeBit-ShuffleBytes-ChangeByte-
-  #3827	NEW    cov: 5 ft: 4 corp: 3/4b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 2 MS: 1 CopyPart-
-  #3963	NEW    cov: 6 ft: 5 corp: 4/6b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 2 MS: 2 ShuffleBytes-ChangeBit-
-  #4167	NEW    cov: 7 ft: 6 corp: 5/9b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 3 MS: 1 InsertByte-
+  #2      INITED cov: 2 ft: 2 corp: 1/1b exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb
+  #144    NEW    cov: 3 ft: 3 corp: 2/2b lim: 4 exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb L: 1/1 MS: 2 ChangeByte-ChangeByte-
+  #157    NEW    cov: 4 ft: 4 corp: 3/4b lim: 4 exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb L: 2/2 MS: 3 CrossOver-ChangeBit-CrossOver-
+  #1345   NEW    cov: 5 ft: 5 corp: 4/8b lim: 14 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 4/4 MS: 3 InsertByte-ChangeBit-CrossOver-
+  #1696   NEW    cov: 6 ft: 6 corp: 5/10b lim: 17 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 2/4 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
+  #1832   REDUCE cov: 6 ft: 6 corp: 5/9b lim: 17 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 3/3 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
   ...
 
 The early parts of the output include information about the fuzzer options and
@@ -407,7 +409,7 @@ Each output line also reports the following statistics (when non-zero):
 ``corp:``
   Number of entries in the current in-memory test corpus and its size in bytes.
 ``lim:``
-  Current limit on the length of new entries in the corpus.  Increases over time
+  Current limit on the length of new entries in the corpus. Increases over time
   until the max length (``-max_len``) is reached.
 ``exec/s:``
   Number of fuzzer iterations per second.
@@ -418,7 +420,8 @@ For ``NEW`` and ``REDUCE`` events, the output line also includes information
 about the mutation operation that produced the new input:
 
 ``L:``
-  Size of the new input in bytes.
+  Size of the new/reduced input in bytes and the size of the largest input
+  in current in-memory test corpus.
 ``MS: <n> <operations>``
   Count and list of the mutation operations used to generate the input.
 
@@ -453,19 +456,26 @@ A simple function that does something interesting if it receives the input
 
 You should get an error pretty quickly::
 
-  INFO: Seed: 1523017872
-  INFO: Loaded 1 modules (16 guards): [0x744e60, 0x744ea0),
-  INFO: -max_len is not provided, using 64
+  INFO: Running with entropic power schedule (0xFF, 100).
+  INFO: Seed: 1434179311
+  INFO: Loaded 1 modules   (8 inline 8-bit counters): 8 [0x5f03d189be90, 0x5f03d189be98),
+  INFO: Loaded 1 PC tables (8 PCs): 8 [0x5f03d189be98,0x5f03d189bf18),
+  INFO: -max_len is not provided; libFuzzer will not generate inputs larger than 4096 bytes
   INFO: A corpus is not provided, starting from an empty corpus
-  #0	READ units: 1
-  #1	INITED cov: 3 ft: 2 corp: 1/1b exec/s: 0 rss: 24Mb
-  #3811	NEW    cov: 4 ft: 3 corp: 2/2b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 1 MS: 5 ChangeBit-ChangeByte-ChangeBit-ShuffleBytes-ChangeByte-
-  #3827	NEW    cov: 5 ft: 4 corp: 3/4b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 2 MS: 1 CopyPart-
-  #3963	NEW    cov: 6 ft: 5 corp: 4/6b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 2 MS: 2 ShuffleBytes-ChangeBit-
-  #4167	NEW    cov: 7 ft: 6 corp: 5/9b exec/s: 0 rss: 25Mb L: 3 MS: 1 InsertByte-
-  ==31511== ERROR: libFuzzer: deadly signal
+  #2      INITED cov: 2 ft: 2 corp: 1/1b exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb
+  #144    NEW    cov: 3 ft: 3 corp: 2/2b lim: 4 exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb L: 1/1 MS: 2 ChangeByte-ChangeByte-
+  #157    NEW    cov: 4 ft: 4 corp: 3/4b lim: 4 exec/s: 0 rss: 31Mb L: 2/2 MS: 3 CrossOver-ChangeBit-CrossOver-
+  #1345   NEW    cov: 5 ft: 5 corp: 4/8b lim: 14 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 4/4 MS: 3 InsertByte-ChangeBit-CrossOver-
+  #1696   NEW    cov: 6 ft: 6 corp: 5/10b lim: 17 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 2/4 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
+  #1832   REDUCE cov: 6 ft: 6 corp: 5/9b lim: 17 exec/s: 0 rss: 32Mb L: 3/3 MS: 1 EraseBytes-
+  ==840148== ERROR: libFuzzer: deadly signal
   ...
-  artifact_prefix='./'; Test unit written to ./crash-b13e8756b13a00cf168300179061fb4b91fefbed
+  SUMMARY: libFuzzer: deadly signal
+  MS: 2 CopyPart-ChangeByte-; base unit: dbee5f8c7a5da845446e75b4a5708e74428b520a
+  0x48,0x49,0x21,
+  HI!
+  artifact_prefix='./'; Test unit written to ./crash-7a8dc3985d2a90fb6e62e94910fc11d31949c348
+  Base64: SEkh
 
 
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