On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:23:43AM +0000, Oleinik, Alexander wrote:
> As part of Google Summer of Code 2019, I'm working on integrating
> fuzzing of virtual devices into QEMU [1]. This is a highly WIP patchset
> adding this functionality.
> 
> Fuzzers provide random data to a program and monitor its execution for
> errors. Coverage-guided fuzzers also observe the parts of the program
> that are exercised by each input, and use this information to
> mutate/guide the inputs to reach additional parts of the program. They
> are quite effective for finding bugs in a wide range of software. 

Good start!  The overall approach is maintainable and not too invasive.
Some iteration on the current patch series will be necessary to clean
things up, but the fundamentals look promising to me.

Stefan

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