Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 09 2020 at 21:47): Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 09 2020 at 21:47):alexcrichton opened PR #1851 from fuzz-less to master:
This commit disables Cranelift's debug verifier for our fuzz targets.
We've gotten a good number of timeouts on OSS-Fuzz and some I've
recently had some discussion over at google/oss-fuzz#3944 about this
issue and what we can do. The result of that discussion was that there
are two primary ways we can speed up our fuzzers:
One is independent of Wasmtime, which is to tweak the flags used to
compile code. The conclusion was that one flag was passed to LLVM
which significantly increased runtime for very little benefit. This
has now been disabled in rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz#229.The other way is to reduce the amount of debug checks we run while
fuzzing wasmtime itself. To put this in perspective, a test case which
took ~100ms to instantiate was taking 50 seconds to instantiate in
the fuzz target. This 500x slowdown was caused by a ton of
multiplicative factors, but two major contributors were NaN
canonicalization and cranelift's debug verifier. I suspect the NaN
canonicalization itself isn't too pricy but when paired with the debug
verifier in float-heavy code it can create lots of IR to verify.This commit is specifically tackling this second point in an attempt to
avoid slowing down our fuzzers too much. The intent here is that we'll
disable the cranelift debug verifier for now but leave all other checks
enabled. If the debug verifier gets a speed boost we can try re-enabling
it, but otherwise it seems like for now it's otherwise not catching any
bugs and creating lots of noise about timeouts that aren't relevant.It's not great that we have to turn off internal checks since that's
what fuzzing is supposed to trigger, but given the timeout on OSS-Fuzz
and the multiplicative effects of all the slowdowns we have when
fuzzing, I'm not sure we can afford the massive slowdown of the debug verifier.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 09 2020 at 21:47):alexcrichton requested fitzgen for a review on PR #1851.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 10 2020 at 14:42):alexcrichton updated PR #1851 from fuzz-less to master:
This commit disables Cranelift's debug verifier for our fuzz targets.
We've gotten a good number of timeouts on OSS-Fuzz and some I've
recently had some discussion over at google/oss-fuzz#3944 about this
issue and what we can do. The result of that discussion was that there
are two primary ways we can speed up our fuzzers:
One is independent of Wasmtime, which is to tweak the flags used to
compile code. The conclusion was that one flag was passed to LLVM
which significantly increased runtime for very little benefit. This
has now been disabled in rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz#229.The other way is to reduce the amount of debug checks we run while
fuzzing wasmtime itself. To put this in perspective, a test case which
took ~100ms to instantiate was taking 50 seconds to instantiate in
the fuzz target. This 500x slowdown was caused by a ton of
multiplicative factors, but two major contributors were NaN
canonicalization and cranelift's debug verifier. I suspect the NaN
canonicalization itself isn't too pricy but when paired with the debug
verifier in float-heavy code it can create lots of IR to verify.This commit is specifically tackling this second point in an attempt to
avoid slowing down our fuzzers too much. The intent here is that we'll
disable the cranelift debug verifier for now but leave all other checks
enabled. If the debug verifier gets a speed boost we can try re-enabling
it, but otherwise it seems like for now it's otherwise not catching any
bugs and creating lots of noise about timeouts that aren't relevant.It's not great that we have to turn off internal checks since that's
what fuzzing is supposed to trigger, but given the timeout on OSS-Fuzz
and the multiplicative effects of all the slowdowns we have when
fuzzing, I'm not sure we can afford the massive slowdown of the debug verifier.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 10 2020 at 16:56):alexcrichton updated PR #1851 from fuzz-less to master:
This commit disables Cranelift's debug verifier for our fuzz targets.
We've gotten a good number of timeouts on OSS-Fuzz and some I've
recently had some discussion over at google/oss-fuzz#3944 about this
issue and what we can do. The result of that discussion was that there
are two primary ways we can speed up our fuzzers:
One is independent of Wasmtime, which is to tweak the flags used to
compile code. The conclusion was that one flag was passed to LLVM
which significantly increased runtime for very little benefit. This
has now been disabled in rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz#229.The other way is to reduce the amount of debug checks we run while
fuzzing wasmtime itself. To put this in perspective, a test case which
took ~100ms to instantiate was taking 50 seconds to instantiate in
the fuzz target. This 500x slowdown was caused by a ton of
multiplicative factors, but two major contributors were NaN
canonicalization and cranelift's debug verifier. I suspect the NaN
canonicalization itself isn't too pricy but when paired with the debug
verifier in float-heavy code it can create lots of IR to verify.This commit is specifically tackling this second point in an attempt to
avoid slowing down our fuzzers too much. The intent here is that we'll
disable the cranelift debug verifier for now but leave all other checks
enabled. If the debug verifier gets a speed boost we can try re-enabling
it, but otherwise it seems like for now it's otherwise not catching any
bugs and creating lots of noise about timeouts that aren't relevant.It's not great that we have to turn off internal checks since that's
what fuzzing is supposed to trigger, but given the timeout on OSS-Fuzz
and the multiplicative effects of all the slowdowns we have when
fuzzing, I'm not sure we can afford the massive slowdown of the debug verifier.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 10 2020 at 17:35):fitzgen submitted PR Review.
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Jun 10 2020 at 17:50):alexcrichton merged PR #1851.
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