commit | 7784140f2bd2d5ae44f2be1507ac25f102006155 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net> | Wed Apr 29 17:04:10 2020 -0400 |
committer | Florin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com> | Mon May 04 14:03:21 2020 +0000 |
tree | 4ac12e04f5177bffab6f3c05d6bf837567a65988 | |
parent | d88fc0fcedb402e3dc82cb44280d4567a6a13266 [diff] |
misc: binary api fuzz test fixes Add a hook to src/vlibapi/api_shared.c to fuzz (screw up) binary API messages, e.g. by xoring random data into them before processing. We specifically exempt client connection messages, and inband debug CLI messages. We step over msg_id, client index, client context, and sw_if_index. Otherwise, "make test" vectors fail too rapidly to learn anything. The goal is to reduce the number of crashes caused to zero. We're fairly close with this patch. Add vl_msg_api_max_length(void *mp), which returns the maximum plausible length for a binary API message. Use it to hardern vl_api_from_api_to_new_vec(...) which takes an additional argument - message pointer - so it can verify that astr->length is sane. If it's not sane, return a u8 *vector of the form "insane astr->length nnnn\0". Verify array lengths in vl_api_dhcp6_send_client_message_t_handler(...) and vl_api_dhcp6_pd_send_client_message_t_handler(...). Add a fairly effective binary API fuzz hook to the unittest plugin, and modify the "make test" framework.py to pass "api-fuzz { on|off }" to enable API fuzzing: "make API_FUZZ=on TEST=xxx test-debug" or similar Type: improvement Signed-off-by: Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net> Change-Id: I0157267652a163c01553d5267620f719cc6c3bde
The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version of Cisco's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology: a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs.
The benefits of this implementation of VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, and rich feature set.
For more information on VPP and its features please visit the FD.io website and What is VPP? pages.
Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under @ref release_notes.
Directory name | Description |
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build-data | Build metadata |
build-root | Build output directory |
doxygen | Documentation generator configuration |
dpdk | DPDK patches and build infrastructure |
@ref extras/libmemif | Client library for memif |
@ref src/examples | VPP example code |
@ref src/plugins | VPP bundled plugins directory |
@ref src/svm | Shared virtual memory allocation library |
src/tests | Standalone tests (not part of test harness) |
src/vat | VPP API test program |
@ref src/vlib | VPP application library |
@ref src/vlibapi | VPP API library |
@ref src/vlibmemory | VPP Memory management |
@ref src/vnet | VPP networking |
@ref src/vpp | VPP application |
@ref src/vpp-api | VPP application API bindings |
@ref src/vppinfra | VPP core library |
@ref src/vpp/api | Not-yet-relocated API bindings |
test | Unit tests and Python test harness |
In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should consult the VPP wiki for more complete documentation.
In particular, readers are recommended to take a look at [Pulling, Building, Running, Hacking, Pushing](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Pulling,_Building,_Run ning,_Hacking_and_Pushing_VPP_Code) which provides extensive step-by-step coverage of the topic.
For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with sudo
access from the project base directory:
./extras/vagrant/build.sh
If you want a more fine-grained approach because you intend to do some development work, the Makefile
in the root directory of the source tree provides several convenience shortcuts as make
targets that may be of interest. To see the available targets run:
make
The directory extras/vagrant
contains a VagrantFile
and supporting scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine. This VM can then be used to test concepts with VPP or as a development platform to extend VPP. Some obvious caveats apply when using a VM for VPP since its performance will never match that of bare metal; if your work is timing or performance sensitive, consider using bare metal in addition or instead of the VM.
For this to work you will need a working installation of Vagrant. Instructions for this can be found [on the Setting up Vagrant wiki page] (https://wiki.fd.io/view/DEV/Setting_Up_Vagrant).
Several modules provide documentation, see @subpage user_doc for more end-user-oriented information. Also see @subpage dev_doc for developer notes.
Visit the VPP wiki for details on more advanced building strategies and other development notes.
There is PyDoc generated documentation available for the VPP test framework. See @ref test_framework_doc for details.