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+# Fuzzing
+
+Each fuzzing target can be built with multiple engines.
+Zstd provides a fuzz corpus for each target that can be downloaded with
+the command:
+
+```
+make corpora
+```
+
+It will download each corpus into `./corpora/TARGET`.
+
+## fuzz.py
+
+`fuzz.py` is a helper script for building and running fuzzers.
+Run `./fuzz.py -h` for the commands and run `./fuzz.py COMMAND -h` for
+command specific help.
+
+### Generating Data
+
+`fuzz.py` provides a utility to generate seed data for each fuzzer.
+
+```
+make -C ../tests decodecorpus
+./fuzz.py gen TARGET
+```
+
+By default it outputs 100 samples, each at most 8KB into `corpora/TARGET-seed`,
+but that can be configured with the `--number`, `--max-size-log` and `--seed`
+flags.
+
+### Build
+It respects the usual build environment variables `CC`, `CFLAGS`, etc.
+The environment variables can be overridden with the corresponding flags
+`--cc`, `--cflags`, etc.
+The specific fuzzing engine is selected with `LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE` or
+`--lib-fuzzing-engine`, the default is `libregression.a`.
+Alternatively, you can use Clang's built in fuzzing engine with
+`--enable-fuzzer`.
+It has flags that can easily set up sanitizers `--enable-{a,ub,m}san`, and
+coverage instrumentation `--enable-coverage`.
+It sets sane defaults which can be overridden with flags `--debug`,
+`--enable-ubsan-pointer-overflow`, etc.
+Run `./fuzz.py build -h` for help.
+
+### Running Fuzzers
+
+`./fuzz.py` can run `libfuzzer`, `afl`, and `regression` tests.
+See the help of the relevant command for options.
+Flags not parsed by `fuzz.py` are passed to the fuzzing engine.
+The command used to run the fuzzer is printed for debugging.
+
+## LibFuzzer
+
+```
+# Build the fuzz targets
+./fuzz.py build all --enable-fuzzer --enable-asan --enable-ubsan --cc clang --cxx clang++
+# OR equivalently
+CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./fuzz.py build all --enable-fuzzer --enable-asan --enable-ubsan
+# Run the fuzzer
+./fuzz.py libfuzzer TARGET <libfuzzer args like -jobs=4>
+```
+
+where `TARGET` could be `simple_decompress`, `stream_round_trip`, etc.
+
+### MSAN
+
+Fuzzing with `libFuzzer` and `MSAN` is as easy as:
+
+```
+CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./fuzz.py build all --enable-fuzzer --enable-msan
+./fuzz.py libfuzzer TARGET <libfuzzer args>
+```
+
+`fuzz.py` respects the environment variables / flags `MSAN_EXTRA_CPPFLAGS`,
+`MSAN_EXTRA_CFLAGS`, `MSAN_EXTRA_CXXFLAGS`, `MSAN_EXTRA_LDFLAGS` to easily pass
+the extra parameters only for MSAN.
+
+## AFL
+
+The default `LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE` is `libregression.a`, which produces a binary
+that AFL can use.
+
+```
+# Build the fuzz targets
+CC=afl-clang CXX=afl-clang++ ./fuzz.py build all --enable-asan --enable-ubsan
+# Run the fuzzer without a memory limit because of ASAN
+./fuzz.py afl TARGET -m none
+```
+
+## Regression Testing
+
+The regression test supports the `all` target to run all the fuzzers in one
+command.
+
+```
+CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./fuzz.py build all --enable-asan --enable-ubsan
+./fuzz.py regression all
+CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./fuzz.py build all --enable-msan
+./fuzz.py regression all
+```