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diff --git a/docs/best_practices.md b/docs/best_practices.md index 133c645e..459fcaf7 100644 --- a/docs/best_practices.md +++ b/docs/best_practices.md @@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ jitter, or is a hash map function etc., then it should not be instrumented. To be able to exclude these functions (based on AFL++'s measured stability), the following process will allow to identify functions with variable edges. +Note that this is only useful for non-persistent targets! +If a persistent target is unstable whereas when run non-persistent is fine, +then this means that the target is keeping internal state, which is bad for +fuzzing. Fuzz such targets **without** persistent mode. + Four steps are required to do this and it also requires quite some knowledge of coding and/or disassembly and is effectively possible only with `afl-clang-fast` `PCGUARD` and `afl-clang-lto` `LTO` instrumentation. |