Re: [PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

[Qu Wenruo]

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>>> I have made a simple fuzzer to inject messy in inode metadata,
>>> dir data, compressed indexes and super block,
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git/commit/?h=experimental-fuzzer
>>>
>>> I am testing with some given dirs and the following script.
>>> Does it look reasonable?
>>>
>>> # !/bin/bash
>>>
>>> mkdir -p mntdir
>>>
>>> for ((i=0; i<1000; ++i)); do
>>> 	mkfs/mkfs.erofs -F$i testdir_fsl.fuzz.img testdir_fsl > /dev/null 2>&1
>>
>> mkfs fuzzes the image? Er....
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> First, This is just the first step of erofs fuzzer I wrote yesterday night...
> 
>>
>> Over in XFS land we have an xfs debugging tool (xfs_db) that knows how
>> to dump (and write!) most every field of every metadata type.  This
>> makes it fairly easy to write systematic level 0 fuzzing tests that
>> check how well the filesystem reacts to garbage data (zeroing,
>> randomizing, oneing, adding and subtracting small integers) in a field.
>> (It also knows how to trash entire blocks.)

The same tool exists for btrfs, although lacks the write ability, but
that dump is more comprehensive and a great tool to learn the on-disk
format.


And for the fuzzing defending part, just a few kernel releases ago,
there is none for btrfs, and now we have a full static verification
layer to cover (almost) all on-disk data at read and write time.
(Along with enhanced runtime check)

We have covered from vague values inside tree blocks and invalid/missing
cross-ref find at runtime.

Currently the two layered check works pretty fine (well, sometimes too
good to detect older, improper behaved kernel).
- Tree blocks with vague data just get rejected by verification layer
  So that all members should fit on-disk format, from alignment to
  generation to inode mode.

  The error will trigger a good enough (TM) error message for developer
  to read, and if we have other copies, we retry other copies just as
  we hit a bad copy.

- At runtime, we have much less to check
  Only cross-ref related things can be wrong now. since everything
  inside a single tree block has already be checked.

In fact, from my respect of view, such read time check should be there
from the very beginning.
It acts kinda of a on-disk format spec. (In fact, by implementing the
verification layer itself, it already exposes a lot of btrfs design
trade-offs)

Even for a fs as complex (buggy) as btrfs, we only take 1K lines to
implement the verification layer.
So I'd like to see every new mainlined fs to have such ability.

> 
> Actually, compared with XFS, EROFS has rather simple on-disk format.
> What we inject one time is quite deterministic.
> 
> The first step just purposely writes some random fuzzed data to
> the base inode metadata, compressed indexes, or dir data field
> (one round one field) to make it validity and coverability.
> 
>>
>> You might want to write such a debugging tool for erofs so that you can
>> take apart crashed images to get a better idea of what went wrong, and
>> to write easy fuzzing tests.
> 
> Yes, we will do such a debugging tool of course. Actually Li Guifu is now
> developping a erofs-fuse to support old linux versions or other OSes for
> archiveing only use, we will base on that code to develop a better fuzzer
> tool as well.

Personally speaking, debugging tool is way more important than a running
kernel module/fuse.
It's human trying to write the code, most of time is spent educating
code readers, thus debugging tool is way more important than dead cold code.

Thanks,
Qu
> 
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
> 
>>
>> --D
>>
>>> 	umount mntdir
>>> 	mount -t erofs -o loop testdir_fsl.fuzz.img mntdir
>>> 	for j in `find mntdir -type f`; do
>>> 		md5sum $j > /dev/null
>>> 	done
>>> done
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gao Xiang
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Gao Xiang
>>>>

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