[QGIS-Developer] Discussion on GDAL about oss-fuzz to find programming errors

Luigi Pirelli luipir at gmail.com
Thu May 11 02:07:56 PDT 2017


tnx Even for the clarification
Luigi Pirelli

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On 10 May 2017 at 16:32, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> On mercredi 10 mai 2017 15:19:31 CEST Luigi Pirelli wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> in GDAL list [1], devs started to parse GDAL code by a google service
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>> to find automatically program errors.
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>> I didn't dig into the tool and I don't know if QGIS match requirement
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>> to be parsed.
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> oss-fuzz doesn't parse source code, but runs test programs that wrap the
> library functions to test and feed them with fuzzed inputs. So this is
> useful to stress test code that can accept arbitrary data. In QGIS that
> could be WKB parsers, data providers, etc...
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> Note that a rather annoying constraint is that all the code must be
> statically linked (see https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/issues/25)
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> Even
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