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Felicitas Hetzelt 2a41a800fe [vm/fuzzer] Add FFI methods 
Rationale:
To test the dart FFI we add method calls which are tunnelled through the
FFI.

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/37606

Change-Id: I3852ea48cab3e542dcc48520df279ec6ac850b51
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/113260
Reviewed-by: Aart Bik <ajcbik@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Felicitas Hetzelt <felih@google.com>
2019-08-16 23:10:30 +00:00

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DartFuzz

DartFuzz is a tool for generating random programs with the objective of fuzz testing the Dart project. Each randomly generated program can be run under various modes of execution, such as using JIT, using AOT, using JavaScript after dart2js, and using various target architectures (x86, arm, etc.). Any difference between the outputs (divergence) may indicate a bug in one of the execution modes.

How to run DartFuzz

To generate a single random Dart program, run

dart dartfuzz.dart [--help] [--seed SEED] [--[no-]fp] FILENAME

where

--help     : prints help and exits
--seed     : defines random seed (system-set by default)
--[no-]fp  : enables/disables floating-point operations (default: on)
--[no-]ffi : enables/disables FFI method calls (default: off)

The tool provides a runnable main isolate. A typical single test run looks as:

dart dartfuzz.dart fuzz.dart
dart fuzz.dart

How to start DartFuzz testing

To start a fuzz testing session, run

dart dartfuzz_test.dart [--help]
                        [--isolates ISOLATES ]
                        [--repeat REPEAT]
                        [--time TIME]
                        [--true_divergence]
                        [--mode1 MODE]
                        [--mode2 MODE]
                        [--[no-]rerun]

where

--help            : prints help and exits
--isolates        : number of isolates in the session (1 by default)
--repeat          : number of tests to run (1000 by default)
--time            : time limit in seconds (none by default)
--show-stats      : show statistics during session (true by default)
--true-divergence : only report true divergences (true by default)
--dart-top        : sets DART_TOP explicitly through command line
--mode1           : m1
--mode2           : m2, and values one of
    jit-[debug-][ia32|x64|arm32|arm64|dbc32|dbc64]   = Dart JIT
    aot-[debug-][x64|arm32|arm64]                    = Dart AOT
    kbc-[int|mix|cmp]-[debug-][ia32|x64|arm32|arm64] = Dart KBC
                                                       (interpreted/
                                                        mixed-mode/
                                                        compiled bytecode)
    djs-x64                                          = dart2js + Node.JS
--[no-]rerun       : re-run a testcase if there is only a divergence in
                     the return codes outside the range [-255,+255];
                     if the second run produces no divergence the previous
                     one will be ignored (true by default)

If no modes are given, a random combination is used.

This fuzz testing tool must have access to the top of a Dart SDK development tree (DART_TOP) in which all proper binaries have been built already (for example, testing jit-ia32 will invoke the binary ${DART_TOP}/out/ReleaseIA32/dart to start the Dart VM). The DART_TOP can be provided through the --dart-top option, as an environment variable, or, by default, as the current directory by invoking the fuzz testing tool from the Dart SDK top.

Background

Although test suites are extremely useful to validate the correctness of a system and to ensure that no regressions occur, any test suite is necessarily finite in size and scope. Tests typically focus on validating particular features by means of code sequences most programmers would expect. Regression tests often use slightly less idiomatic code sequences, since they reflect problems that were not anticipated originally, but occurred “in the field”. Still, any test suite leaves the developer wondering whether undetected bugs and flaws still linger in the system.

Over the years, fuzz testing has gained popularity as a testing technique for discovering such lingering bugs, including bugs that can bring down a system in an unexpected way. Fuzzing refers to feeding a large amount of random data as input to a system in an attempt to find bugs or make it crash. Generation-based fuzz testing constructs random, but properly formatted input data. Mutation-based fuzz testing applies small random changes to existing inputs in order to detect shortcomings in a system. Profile-guided or coverage-guided fuzz testing adds a direction to the way these random changes are applied. Multi-layered approaches generate random inputs that are subsequently mutated at various stages of execution.

The randomness of fuzz testing implies that the size and scope of testing is no longer bounded. Every new run can potentially discover bugs and crashes that were hereto undetected.

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