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author | van Hauser <vh@thc.org> | 2020-08-03 13:39:55 +0200 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-08-03 13:39:55 +0200 |
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diff --git a/docs/parallel_fuzzing.md b/docs/parallel_fuzzing.md index 271f8369..2ab1466c 100644 --- a/docs/parallel_fuzzing.md +++ b/docs/parallel_fuzzing.md @@ -99,7 +99,15 @@ example may be: This is not a concern if you use @@ without -f and let afl-fuzz come up with the file name. -## 3) Multi-system parallelization +## 3) Syncing with non-afl fuzzers or independant instances + +A -M main node can be told with the `-F other_fuzzer_queue_directory` option +to sync results from other fuzzers, e.g. libfuzzer or honggfuzz. + +Only the specified directory will by synced into afl, not subdirectories. +The specified directories do not need to exist yet at the start of afl. + +## 4) Multi-system parallelization The basic operating principle for multi-system parallelization is similar to the mechanism explained in section 2. The key difference is that you need to @@ -176,7 +184,7 @@ It is *not* advisable to skip the synchronization script and run the fuzzers directly on a network filesystem; unexpected latency and unkillable processes in I/O wait state can mess things up. -## 4) Remote monitoring and data collection +## 5) Remote monitoring and data collection You can use screen, nohup, tmux, or something equivalent to run remote instances of afl-fuzz. If you redirect the program's output to a file, it will @@ -200,7 +208,7 @@ Keep in mind that crashing inputs are *not* automatically propagated to the main instance, so you may still want to monitor for crashes fleet-wide from within your synchronization or health checking scripts (see afl-whatsup). -## 5) Asymmetric setups +## 6) Asymmetric setups It is perhaps worth noting that all of the following is permitted: |