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Diffstat (limited to 'include/afl-fuzz.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/afl-fuzz.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/afl-fuzz.h b/include/afl-fuzz.h index 5fd393dd..8b6502b4 100644 --- a/include/afl-fuzz.h +++ b/include/afl-fuzz.h @@ -885,14 +885,19 @@ struct custom_mutator { * A post-processing function to use right before AFL writes the test case to * disk in order to execute the target. * - * (Optional) If this functionality is not needed, simply don't define this + * NOTE: Do not do any random changes to the data in this function! + * + * PERFORMANCE: If you can modify the data in-place you will have a better + * performance. Modify *data and set `*out_buf = data`. + * + * (Optional) If this functionality is not needed, simply do not define this * function. * * @param[in] data pointer returned in afl_custom_init by this custom mutator * @param[in] buf Buffer containing the test case to be executed * @param[in] buf_size Size of the test case * @param[out] out_buf Pointer to the buffer storing the test case after - * processing. External library should allocate memory for out_buf. + * processing. The external library should allocate memory for out_buf. * It can chose to alter buf in-place, if the space is large enough. * @return Size of the output buffer. */ |