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fix(fuzz): correct oss-fuzz/build.sh's fragroute linking, prep for submission (#1092) - #1114

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Fixing this ahead of actually submitting to OSS-Fuzz (#1092), since testing it turned up two real bugs.

What was wrong

Actually running test/fuzz/oss-fuzz/build.sh (rather than just reading it) found:

  • FUZZ_LIBS hardcoded src/fragroute/libfragroute.a unconditionally, so a build where fragroute isn't available (no libdnet) would fail linking fuzz_services/fuzz_pcap too, over a library neither of them needs.
  • The libdnet link flag was hardcoded as -ldnet. Debian/Ubuntu - including OSS-Fuzz's own base-builder image - package it as libdumbnet. Confirmed locally: dumbnet-config --libs-ldumbnet, and the flag -ldnet doesn't resolve to anything on this system at all.

Fixed by reading the actual link flag (LDNETLIB) back out of test/fuzz/Makefile, which ./configure (run two lines above in the same script) already determined correctly - rather than guessing at a hardcoded flag a second time.

Also switched intermediate object files from /tmp to $WORK, matching OSS-Fuzz's documented environment contract ($WORK: "directory for intermediate build files").

Verification

No Docker available in this environment, so I couldn't run the actual OSS-Fuzz container. Instead, ran the corrected script directly with the exact environment variables OSS-Fuzz supplies:

CC=clang CXX=clang++
CFLAGS=CXXFLAGS="-O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -fsanitize=address,undefined"
LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE="-fsanitize=fuzzer"

against a completely fresh checkout (autogen → configure → make → manual compile+link, exactly as the script does). All three targets (fuzz_services, fuzz_pcap, fuzz_fragroute) built, ran cleanly against the checked-in corpus, and ran several million fuzzing iterations apiece in a few seconds with no crashes:

fuzz_pcap:      3955633 runs in 6s
fuzz_services:    49278 runs in 6s
fuzz_fragroute:   83771 runs in 6s

project.yaml

  • Dropped memory (MSan): fuzz_fragroute/fuzz_pcap link the base image's apt-installed libpcap/libdumbnet, not rebuilt from source with MSan instrumentation, so MSan would flag uninitialized-value use inside libraries that aren't ours to fix. Same call our own CI's asan job already makes (ASan+UBSan only).
  • Noted the branch-pin caveat: the actual OSS-Fuzz Dockerfile clones 4.6.1-beta1, not this repo's default branch, since the fuzz targets haven't reached master yet - flagged so whoever eventually merges that release remembers to update the Dockerfile too.

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…bmission (#1092)

Two real bugs, found by actually running this script rather than reading it:

- FUZZ_LIBS hardcoded src/fragroute/libfragroute.a unconditionally, so a
  build where fragroute isn't available (no libdnet) would fail linking
  fuzz_services/fuzz_pcap too, over a library neither of them needs.
- The libdnet link flag was hardcoded as -ldnet. Debian/Ubuntu - including
  OSS-Fuzz's own base-builder image - package it as libdumbnet, so linking
  ever actually reaches this by accident, not because -ldnet resolves there.
  Read the real flag (LDNETLIB) back out of test/fuzz/Makefile instead,
  which is what ./configure, run two lines above, already determined.

Also uses $WORK for intermediate object files rather than /tmp, matching
what OSS-Fuzz's own documented environment contract calls it.

Verified end-to-end outside the OSS-Fuzz container (no Docker available
here): ran this exact script with $CC=clang, $CXX=clang++, and
$CFLAGS/$CXXFLAGS/$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE set to what OSS-Fuzz would supply
(ASan+UBSan, -fsanitize=fuzzer) against a fresh checkout. All three targets
built, ran cleanly against the checked-in corpus, and ran several million
fuzzing iterations apiece in a few seconds with no crashes.

project.yaml: dropped the memory (MSan) sanitizer - fuzz_fragroute/fuzz_pcap
link the base image's apt-installed libpcap/libdumbnet, not rebuilt with MSan
instrumentation, so it would flag uninitialized-value use inside libraries
that aren't ours to fix; our own CI's asan job made the same call
(ASan+UBSan only). Also noted the branch-pin caveat (#1092): the actual
submission clones 4.6.1-beta1, not this repo's default branch, since the
fuzz targets haven't reached master yet.
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fklassen merged commit 20e3222 into 4.6.1-beta1 Jul 29, 2026
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