[#640,!351] Restrict size of data that will be sent to Kea

Kea will only accept up to about 64k or data (set by the size of a UDP
datagram).  However, AFL can send much larger data packets, which may cause
problems in synchronization between the two threads used to implement
fuzzing in Kea.

diff --git a/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.cc b/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.cc
index 11afbe1b685ce1d27fd61ff2a63e5dd71be27698..cb28389de42916942c64d49592670ba4966e427a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.cc
+++ b/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.cc
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ using namespace std;
 
 // Constants defined in the Fuzz class definition.
 constexpr size_t        Fuzz::BUFFER_SIZE;
+constexpr size_t        Fuzz::MAX_SEND_SIZE;
 constexpr useconds_t    Fuzz::SLEEP_INTERVAL;
 constexpr long          Fuzz::LOOP_COUNT;
 
@@ -264,10 +265,16 @@ Fuzz::run(void) {
         // and AFL seems to get confused in this case.  At any rate, without
         // some form of synchronization, this approach does not work.
 
-        // Send the data to the main Kea thread.
-        ssize_t sent = sendto(sockfd, buf, length, 0, sockaddr_ptr_,
+        // Send the data to the main Kea thread.  Limit the size of the
+        // packets that can be sent.
+        size_t send_len = (length < MAX_SEND_SIZE) ? length : MAX_SEND_SIZE;
+        ssize_t sent = sendto(sockfd, buf, send_len, 0, sockaddr_ptr_,
                               sockaddr_len_);
         if (sent < 0) {
+            // TODO:  If we get here, we may well hang: AFL has sent us a
+            // packet but by continuing, we are not letting Kea process it
+            // and trigger AFL to send another.  For the time being, we
+            // are restricting the size of packets Kea can send us.
             LOG_ERROR(fuzz_logger, FUZZ_SEND_ERROR).arg(strerror(errno));
             continue;
         } else if (sent != length) {

diff --git a/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.h b/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.h
index a6009338a5de69989dedc2739ec24c81ce3c2d6a..bdcbaf0a09c4ae4c6a3ead0b2aef11c465ee62e7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.h
+++ b/src/lib/dhcpsrv/fuzz.h
@@ -141,7 +141,18 @@ public:
     void setAddress(int ipversion);
 
     /// @brief size of the buffer used to transfer data between AFL and Kea.
-    static constexpr size_t BUFFER_SIZE = 65536;
+    ///
+    /// This is much larger than the data that will be sent to Kea (so AFL
+    /// data being trimmed).  However, it does allow for AFL to send quite
+    /// large packets without resulting in timeouts or synchronization
+    /// problems with the fuzzing thread.
+    static constexpr size_t BUFFER_SIZE = 128000;
+
+    /// @brief maximum size of packets fuzzing thread will send to Kea
+    ///
+    /// This is below the maximum size of data that can be put into a
+    /// single UDP datagram.
+    static constexpr size_t MAX_SEND_SIZE = 64000;
 
     /// @brief Delay before rereading if read from stdin returns an error (us)
     static constexpr  useconds_t SLEEP_INTERVAL = 50000;