Re: [PATCH 00/14] Introduce fuzzing of XML formats
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 09:39:38PM +0530, Rayhan Faizel wrote:
This series introduces multiple fuzzers developed as part of Google
Summer
of Code 2024. We adopt a structure-aware fuzzing approach to fuzz libvirt
XML formats. The fuzzing methodology makes use of libFuzzer and
libprotobuf-mutator. The fuzzers work by mutating intermediate protobufs
and converting them to XML.
The fuzzing method in use requires inclusion of C++ sources. However, C++
compilation will be done only if '-Dfuzz' is enabled. Otherwise, libvirt will
compile normally as before. The fuzzing method works only on clang compilers
which support libFuzzer.
Hmm, I wish you'd raised this issue on the list before investing all
this work becasue IMHO the dependency on C++ is not something I would
want to see in the libvirt project, even just for tests. It was a
very delibrate decision that libvirt be a C project, not C++ project,
and if we're going to extend libvirt to take code in any new language
the choices that make sense looking to the future are Rust or Go,
not C++.
With regards,
Daniel
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