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| author | llzmb <46303940+llzmb@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-11-23 18:58:36 +0100 |
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| committer | llzmb <46303940+llzmb@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-11-23 18:58:36 +0100 |
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diff --git a/instrumentation/README.persistent_mode.md b/instrumentation/README.persistent_mode.md index efe64a37..e9d2a523 100644 --- a/instrumentation/README.persistent_mode.md +++ b/instrumentation/README.persistent_mode.md @@ -155,14 +155,14 @@ and going much higher increases the likelihood of hiccups without giving you any real performance benefits. A more detailed template is shown in -[utils/persistent_mode](../utils/persistent_mode). Similarly to the previous -mode, the feature works only with afl-clang-fast; `#ifdef` guards can be used to -suppress it when using other compilers. - -Note that as with the previous mode, the feature is easy to misuse; if you do -not fully reset the critical state, you may end up with false positives or waste -a whole lot of CPU power doing nothing useful at all. Be particularly wary of -memory leaks and of the state of file descriptors. +[utils/persistent_mode](../utils/persistent_mode). Similarly to the deferred +initialization, the feature works only with afl-clang-fast; `#ifdef` guards can +be used to suppress it when using other compilers. + +Note that as with the deferred initialization, the feature is easy to misuse; if +you do not fully reset the critical state, you may end up with false positives +or waste a whole lot of CPU power doing nothing useful at all. Be particularly +wary of memory leaks and of the state of file descriptors. PS. Because there are task switches still involved, the mode isn't as fast as "pure" in-process fuzzing offered, say, by LLVM's LibFuzzer; but it is a lot |