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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH 0/5] perf core: Support overwrite ring buffer
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > * Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > so, according to the error message it wants a writable directory. Lets try it that
>> >> > way:
>> >> >
>> >> > triton:~> mkdir go
>> >> > triton:~>
>> >> > triton:~> export GOPATH=/home/mingo/go/
>> >> > triton:~> go get github.com/google/syzkaller
>> >> > can't load package: package github.com/google/syzkaller: no buildable Go source files in /home/mingo/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller
>> >>
>> >> Yes, GOPATH needs to be set a writable dir.
>> >> You can ignore "can't load package" error. The goal of that step is
>> >> checkout syzkaller with all dependencies into correct dirs under
>> >> GOPATH. That's already done by now.
>> >> Or you can do (/... at the end):
>> >> $ go get github.com/google/syzkaller/...
>> >> That will checkout and build.
>> >> Either way you can continue with the make step.
>> >
>> > Cool, the '/...' trick works.
>> >
>> >
>> >> > looks like someone wants 'Go' to be used as little as possible! ;-)
>> >>
>> >> You probably did not observe recently a noobie trying to build a C
>> >> project with sufficiently-complicate-build-system and a bunch of
>> >> dependencies that needs to be on specific, unknown revisions, and that
>> >> still does not compile with you compiler and does not link with your
>> >> linker, and then of course target machine has a wrong glibc version :)
>> >
>> > Nah, old Linux tools very much suck, we know that and we suffer from it.
>> >
>> > But new tools should not suck! :-)
>> >
>> > So, going from the description at:
>> >
>> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Ym0TZLkmRrM0ZGgLpu8kqS-YjoWTMrvaLz=tx2tnyO3w@mail.gmail.com
>> >
>> > I now have it built, and created $GOPATH/src/github.com/google/syzkaller/perf.cfg
>> > with:
>> >
>> >
>> > triton:~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller> cat perf.cfg
>> > {
>> > "http": "localhost:50000",
>> > "workdir": "/home/mingo/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller/workdir",
>> > "syzkaller": "/home/mingo/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller",
>> > "vmlinux": "-",
>> > "type": "local",
>> > "count": 1,
>> > "procs": 16,
>> > "nocover": true,
>> > "nodropprivs": true,
>> > "enable_syscalls": [
>> > "getpid",
>> > "perf_event_open",
>> > "ioctl$PERF*",
>> > "prctl$void",
>> > "bpf$*",
>> > "sched_yield"
>> > ]
>> > }
>> >
>> > Then I tried to do:
>> >
>> > $ bin/syz-manager -config perf.cfg
>> >
>> > in ~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller, but that doesn't work because there's no
>> > 'bin' directory:
>> >
>> > triton:~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller> bin/syz-manager -config perf.cfg
>> > bash: bin/syz-manager: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > So that should really read something like:
>> >
>> > cd ~/go
>> > bin/syz-manager -config src/github.com/google/syzkaller/perf.cfg
>> >
>> > next roadblock:
>> >
>> > fomalhaut:~/go> bin/syz-manager -config src/github.com/google/syzkaller/perf.cfg
>> > 2016/03/08 16:53:44 bad config syzkaller param: can't find bin/syz-fuzzer
>> >
>> > so how do I proceed from here?
>>
>>
>> You need to call make in syzkaller dir, it will create
>> syzkaller/bin/syz-manager. I.e.
>>
>> $ cd /home/mingo/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller
>> $ make
>
> Ok, cool, this got me further.
>
>> $ bin/syz-manager -config perf.cfg
>
> I now get periodic output of:
>
> fomalhaut:~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller> bin/syz-manager -config src/github.com/google/syzkaller/perf.cfg
> 2016/03/08 17:24:07 failed to read config file: open src/github.com/google/syzkaller/perf.cfg: no such file or directory
> fomalhaut:~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller> bin/syz-manager -config perf.cfg
> 2016/03/08 17:24:19 loading corpus...
> 2016/03/08 17:24:19 loaded 0 programs
> 2016/03/08 17:24:19 serving http on http://localhost:50000
> 2016/03/08 17:24:19 serving rpc on tcp://127.0.0.1:37006
> 2016/03/08 17:24:34 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454274467286949
> 2016/03/08 17:24:34 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:24:34 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454274467603509
> 2016/03/08 17:24:49 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454289719432704
> 2016/03/08 17:24:49 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:24:49 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454289719774031
> 2016/03/08 17:25:04 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454304992856310
> 2016/03/08 17:25:04 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:25:04 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454304993224299
> 2016/03/08 17:25:20 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454320280216980
> 2016/03/08 17:25:20 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:25:20 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454320280581459
> 2016/03/08 17:25:35 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454335572633035
> 2016/03/08 17:25:35 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:25:35 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454335572967343
> 2016/03/08 17:25:50 local-0: saving crash 'BUG: /sys/kernel/debug/kcov is missing (permission denied). Enable CONFIG_KCOV and mount debugfs.' to crash-local-0-1457454350865099485
> 2016/03/08 17:25:50 local-0: lost connection: exit status 1
> 2016/03/08 17:25:50 local-0: saving crash 'lost connection' to crash-local-0-1457454350865429049
>
> is CONFIG_KCOV=y a must-have feature? There's no KCOV support upstream that I can
> see.

Change:
"nocover": true,
to:
"cover": false,
in the config file.

KCOV will increase efficiency of the fuzzer, but it is not necessary.
As far as I understand Peter tested without KCOV.

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