# The `libfuzzer-sys` Crate
Barebones wrapper around LLVM's libFuzzer runtime library.
The CPP parts are extracted from compiler-rt git repository with `git filter-branch`.
libFuzzer relies on LLVM sanitizer support. The Rust compiler has built-in support for LLVM sanitizer support, for now, it's limited to Linux. As a result, `libfuzzer-sys` only works on Linux.
## Usage
### Use `cargo fuzz`!
[The recommended way to use this crate with `cargo fuzz`!][cargo-fuzz].
[cargo-fuzz]: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz
### Manual Usage
This crate can also be used manually as following:
First create a new cargo project:
```
$ cargo new --bin fuzzed
$ cd fuzzed
```
Then add a dependency on the `fuzzer-sys` crate and your own crate:
```toml
[dependencies]
libfuzzer-sys = "0.4.0"
your_crate = { path = "../path/to/your/crate" }
```
Change the `fuzzed/src/main.rs` to fuzz your code:
```rust
#![no_main]
use libfuzzer_sys::fuzz_target;
fuzz_target!(|data: &[u8]| {
// code to fuzz goes here
});
```
Build by running the following command:
```sh
$ cargo rustc -- \
-C passes='sancov-module' \
-C llvm-args='-sanitizer-coverage-level=3' \
-C llvm-args='-sanitizer-coverage-inline-8bit-counters' \
-Z sanitizer=address
```
And finally, run the fuzzer:
```sh
$ ./target/debug/fuzzed
```
### Linking to a local libfuzzer
When using `libfuzzer-sys`, you can provide your own `libfuzzer` runtime in two ways.
If you are developing a fuzzer, you can set the `CUSTOM_LIBFUZZER_PATH` environment variable to the path of your local
`libfuzzer` runtime, which will then be linked instead of building libfuzzer as part of the build stage of `libfuzzer-sys`.
For an example, to link to a prebuilt LLVM 16 `libfuzzer`, you could use:
```bash
$ export CUSTOM_LIBFUZZER_PATH=/usr/lib64/clang/16/lib/libclang_rt.fuzzer-x86_64.a
$ cargo fuzz run ...
```
Alternatively, you may also disable the default `link_libfuzzer` feature:
In `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
libfuzzer-sys = { path = "../../libfuzzer", default-features = false }
```
Then link to your own runtime in your `build.rs`.
## Updating libfuzzer from upstream
* Update the `COMMIT=...` variable in `./update-libfuzzer.sh` with the new
commit hash from [llvm-mirror/llvm-project](github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm-project)
that you are vendoring.
* Re-run the script:
```
$ ./update-libfuzzer.sh <github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm-project SHA1>
```
## License
All files in the `libfuzzer` directory are licensed NCSA.
Everything else is dual-licensed Apache 2.0 and MIT.