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[libFuzzer] Preserve position hint in auto dictionary
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Authored by fmeum on May 1 2021, 12:53 AM.

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Summary

Currently, the position hint of an entry in the persistent auto
dictionary is fixed to 1. As a consequence, with a 50% chance, the entry
is applied right after the first byte of the input. As the position 1
does not appear to have any particular significance, this is likely a
bug that may have been caused by confusing the constructor parameter
with a success count.

This commit resolves the issue by preserving any existing position hint
or disabling the hint if the original entry didn't have one.

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fmeum added inline comments.May 1 2021, 12:57 AM
compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerMutate.cpp
484

Maybe this can even be replaced by:

PersistentAutoDictionary.push_back(DE);

Or does the word in the entry need to be copied here?

Thanks for the bug fix!

compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerMutate.cpp
484

AFAICT, DictionaryEntry is POD, so yes let's just do push_back(DE) unconditionally.

fmeum updated this revision to Diff 342648.May 3 2021, 10:41 PM

Simplified the change by copying the DictionaryEntry POD.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 4 2021, 8:49 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.