[PATCH] Add configure --disable-textrelcheck option to enable CC=afl-fuzz on 32bit.

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 13:40:55 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 00:08 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Using american fuzzy lop has found a lot of issues. It would be nice to
> make using it a bit easier. Our build files make sure that no shared
> library uses text relocations, but afl-gcc will insert some on i686.
> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/textrelocs.html
> 
> Now CC=afl-gcc ./configure --disable-textrelcheck will allow them so
> that afl can instrument the libraries.
> 
> Don't try to use or install them except with afl-fuzz. When selinux is
> enabled it might prevent loading the libraries with DT_TEXTREL set.

I pushed this to elfutils git master now. Running on 32bit x86 Fedora
has discovered some more crashers. I am currently analyzing and will
post patches soon.

Thanks,

Mark


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