Rayhaan JaufeerallyandClaude Fable 5.1
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Rhai made a decision about a route cost one to three microseconds, some two hundred times what the same costs in Rust. That was bearable where a function is asked once for an UPDATE, and is not where every route is weighed against every peer, as it is when routes are passed on. What is wanted of a policy (mark routes by where they came from, mark what is announced, let communities say who is told what) needs no language; it is to be configuration, done natively. Kept from that work: route selection goes by a LOCAL_PREF that policy set on a route from an external peer, and the lab's configuration can be added to by a phase. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fuzz targets
Coverage-guided fuzzing of everything that reads input we do not control.
The property tests (cargo test, e.g. crates/packet/tests/properties.rs)
check the same things on generated input and run on every build; these
targets go further by letting libFuzzer follow code coverage for as long as
you leave them running.
| Target | Input |
|---|---|
message |
Raw bytes as they come off a TCP connection |
message_body |
A message body behind a correct header (reaches the body parsers) |
prefix_text |
A prefix as text |
config |
The configuration file |
rtr |
A stream of RTR PDUs, as an RPKI cache sends them |
netlink |
Messages from the kernel's routing socket |
attrs |
The routing table's reading of stored attribute bytes |
For the two message targets a finding is either a panic, or a message the decoder accepted that cannot be written and read back as itself.
Running
libFuzzer needs a nightly toolchain and cargo-fuzz:
rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo install cargo-fuzz
Then, from this directory:
cargo +nightly fuzz run message_body corpus/message_body seeds/message_body -- -max_total_time=300
The first directory is the working corpus, which the fuzzer adds to and
which is not checked in. seeds/ holds a few valid inputs to start from.
Leave out -max_total_time to run until interrupted.
When it finds something
The input is saved under artifacts/<target>/. Reproduce it with
cargo +nightly fuzz run message_body artifacts/message_body/crash-...
Fix the bug, and add a unit test with the input next to the code it broke,
so that cargo test keeps it fixed without anyone having to run the fuzzer.