/src/r-oss-fuzz/harnesses/common.h

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/*
 * Shared helpers for R fuzzing harnesses (libFuzzer).
 *
 * Provides:
 *   fuzz_suppress_warnings() - Suppress R warnings to avoid buffer overflow
 *   fuzz_run_on_r_thread()   - Run a function on the R thread (1 GiB stack)
 *   fuzz_init_r()            - Full R initialization sequence
 *   fuzz_set_string()        - Stage a string input under a toplevel context
 *   fuzz_set_string_ce()     - Stage a string with an explicit encoding mark
 *   fuzz_set_raw_arg()       - Stage a raw-vector input likewise
 *   fuzz_make_wrapper()      - Parse an R closure that implements a call slot
 *   fuzz_scratch_file()      - Per-process temp file for path-only entry points
 *   fuzz_write_scratch()     - Rewrite that file with the current input
 *   fuzz_repeat_product_excessive() - Guard against TRE repeat blowup
 *   LLVMFuzzerInitialize / LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput - forward to the
 *       harness's fuzz_target_init / fuzz_target_run on the R thread
 *
 * Adapted from r-afl's fuzz.h for use with libFuzzer instead of AFL++.
 */

#ifndef FUZZ_COMMON_H
#define FUZZ_COMMON_H

#include <limits.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define R_NO_REMAP 1
#include <Rembedded.h>
#include <Rinternals.h>
#define CSTACK_DEFNS 1    /* R_CStackStart, R_CStackLimit */
#define HAVE_UINTPTR_T 1
#include <Rinterface.h>   /* R_SignalHandlers */
#include <R_ext/Parse.h>

/*
 * Suppress R warnings globally.
 *
 * Many R functions emit warnings on invalid input (e.g., "NAs introduced
 * by coercion").  In persistent fuzzing, these accumulate and can overflow
 * R's warning buffer, triggering fatal errors.  Setting warn = -1
 * suppresses all warnings.
 */
static void fuzz_suppress_warnings(void)
{
    int error = 0;
    SEXP warn_call;
    Rf_protect(warn_call = Rf_lang2(Rf_install("options"),
                                    Rf_ScalarInteger(-1)));
    SET_TAG(CDR(warn_call), Rf_install("warn"));
    R_tryEval(warn_call, R_GlobalEnv, &error);
    Rf_unprotect(1);
}

/*
 * Set R_HOME based on the fuzzer binary's location.
 *
 * OSS-Fuzz places everything in $OUT.  The build.sh installs R to
 * $OUT/r-install, so R_HOME is at $OUT/r-install/lib/R.  We derive
 * this from /proc/self/exe so it works regardless of the mount path.
 */
static void fuzz_set_r_home(void)
{
    /* Skip if R_HOME is already set (e.g., for local testing) */
    if (getenv("R_HOME") != NULL)
        return;

    char exe[PATH_MAX];
    ssize_t len = readlink("/proc/self/exe", exe, sizeof(exe) - 1);
    if (len <= 0)
        return;
    exe[len] = '\0';

    /* Find the directory containing the binary */
    char *slash = strrchr(exe, '/');
    if (slash == NULL)
        return;
    *slash = '\0';

    char r_home[PATH_MAX];
    snprintf(r_home, sizeof(r_home), "%s/r-install/lib/R", exe);
    setenv("R_HOME", r_home, 1);
}

/*
 * Cap R's vector heap.
 *
 * Hostile input reaches R's allocator directly -- a serialized vector can
 * declare any length it likes, and coercion or scanning can be talked into
 * asking for one -- so a 64KB input can request gigabytes.
 *
 * R enforces R_MAX_VSIZE in allocVector and signals an ordinary R error
 * ("vector memory limit of N reached").  When it fires inside R_ToplevelExec
 * the iteration is discarded and fuzzing carries on; every per-iteration
 * allocation must therefore go through fuzz_set_string / fuzz_set_raw_arg
 * below, which run under such a context.  That catchability is the reason
 * to prefer this over a sanitizer-level RSS limit: ASAN's soft_rss_limit_mb
 * either aborts the process or starts handing NULL back to allocators that
 * never expected it, and both look like crashes.
 *
 * Caveats:
 *   - The cap bounds R's cumulative LIVE vector heap, not one input's
 *     allocations.  Interned symbols are never collected, so the parse and
 *     unserialize targets ratchet toward the cap over a long run.
 *   - It bounds R's vector heap ONLY.  malloc-based allocations, like TRE
 *     compiling a pattern, bypass it entirely; see
 *     fuzz_repeat_product_excessive for that guard.
 *   - It does cost coverage of code paths that need larger results.
 *     Targets with legitimately large outputs (decompress: a 64KB bzip2
 *     stream of zeros expands past 1GB) raise the default by defining
 *     FUZZ_R_MAX_VSIZE before including this header.
 *   - R's suffix parsing is case-sensitive: "4Gb" works, "4gb" silently
 *     leaves the heap uncapped (R only warns on stderr at startup).  The
 *     env override is for local runs; the CI runner does not forward
 *     arbitrary environment variables.
 *
 * Local reproduction of vector-limit findings under plain Rscript needs
 * the same value exported; see README.md.
 */
#ifndef FUZZ_R_MAX_VSIZE
# define FUZZ_R_MAX_VSIZE "1Gb"
#endif

static void fuzz_set_vsize_limit(void)
{
    if (getenv("R_MAX_VSIZE") == NULL)
        setenv("R_MAX_VSIZE", FUZZ_R_MAX_VSIZE, 1);
}

/*
 * Run R on its own thread with a large stack.
 *
 * Several of R's recursive C walkers never call R_CheckStack(): bind.c's
 * AnswerType behind c(recursive = TRUE), deparse.c behind
 * as.character(<list>), and the coerce, duplicate, identical and subassign
 * walkers.  A list some tens of thousands deep, which an input can build
 * at run time, overflows the 8 MiB main-thread stack in them.  Plain R
 * reports "segfault from C stack overflow" and recovers, long-standing
 * behaviour rather than a defect to report; under the sanitizers it is a
 * stack-overflow crash that every target walking a nested value would
 * keep rediscovering.
 *
 * The main thread's stack is fixed before the process starts, so R runs
 * on a worker thread created with FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE of stack instead:
 * deep enough that any recursion an input can afford within the per-input
 * limits completes, and virtual until touched, so it costs an idle target
 * nothing.
 *
 * Everything that touches R -- initialization, every input, the checks
 * under tests/ -- must run on that thread: R records its stack bounds
 * once, and R_CheckStack() measures against them.  The libFuzzer entry
 * points at the end of this header forward to fuzz_target_init and
 * fuzz_target_run there, and fuzz_init_r() refuses to run anywhere else.
 *
 * The thread does not survive a fork, and AFL++'s driver forks: its
 * forkserver starts after LLVMFuzzerInitialize, so every input runs in a
 * child that inherited the initialized R but no thread to run it on.
 * An atfork handler forgets the thread in the child, and the next job
 * starts a fresh one, which points R's stack check at its own stack.
 */
#ifndef FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE
# define FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE ((size_t)1 << 30)
#endif

typedef struct {
    void (*fn)(void *);
    void *arg;
} fuzz_job_t;

static struct {
    pthread_t thread;
    int started;
    pthread_mutex_t mutex;
    pthread_cond_t cond;
    fuzz_job_t *job;        /* set by the caller, cleared by the thread */
    uintptr_t stack_top;    /* where the thread's frames begin */
} fuzz_r_thread = {
    .mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
    .cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER
};

static void *fuzz_r_thread_main(void *unused)
{
    (void)unused;
    /* The frame address rather than a local's: under ASAN an address-taken
     * local may sit on the fake stack, nowhere near this thread's stack.
     * R_CStackStart matters only once R is initialized; fuzz_init_r()
     * sets it again after Rf_initialize_R has overwritten it. */
    fuzz_r_thread.stack_top = (uintptr_t)__builtin_frame_address(0);
    R_CStackStart = fuzz_r_thread.stack_top;

    /* libFuzzer's -timeout alarm is acted on only by the thread running
     * its loop (the main thread); delivered here it would be ignored and
     * the input would run on.  Block it so the kernel cannot pick this
     * thread.  A timeout report therefore shows the main thread waiting
     * rather than where R is; the testcase it writes still reproduces. */
    sigset_t alarm;
    sigemptyset(&alarm);
    sigaddset(&alarm, SIGALRM);
    pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &alarm, NULL);

    pthread_mutex_lock(&fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
    for (;;) {
        while (fuzz_r_thread.job == NULL)
            pthread_cond_wait(&fuzz_r_thread.cond, &fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
        fuzz_job_t *job = fuzz_r_thread.job;
        pthread_mutex_unlock(&fuzz_r_thread.mutex);

        job->fn(job->arg);

        pthread_mutex_lock(&fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
        fuzz_r_thread.job = NULL;
        pthread_cond_broadcast(&fuzz_r_thread.cond);
    }
    return NULL;
}

static int fuzz_on_r_thread(void)
{
    return fuzz_r_thread.started &&
           pthread_equal(pthread_self(), fuzz_r_thread.thread);
}

/* Child side of fork: only the forking thread survives, so the R thread
 * is gone, and if it was the one waiting in pthread_cond_wait the
 * condition variable still counts it.  Nothing holds the mutex during a
 * fork from either side of the handoff, so resetting both is safe;
 * pthread_cond_destroy would wait for the phantom waiter instead. */
static void fuzz_r_thread_forget(void)
{
    fuzz_r_thread.started = 0;
    fuzz_r_thread.job = NULL;
    fuzz_r_thread.mutex = (pthread_mutex_t)PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
    fuzz_r_thread.cond = (pthread_cond_t)PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;
}

/* Run fn(arg) on the R thread and wait for it to return, starting the
 * thread on first use.  From the R thread itself this is a plain call. */
static void fuzz_run_on_r_thread(void (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
{
    if (!fuzz_r_thread.started) {
        static int atfork_registered = 0;
        if (!atfork_registered) {
            if (pthread_atfork(NULL, NULL, fuzz_r_thread_forget) != 0) {
                fprintf(stderr, "fuzz: cannot register the fork handler\n");
                abort();
            }
            atfork_registered = 1;
        }

        pthread_attr_t attr;
        if (pthread_attr_init(&attr) != 0 ||
            pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE) != 0 ||
            pthread_create(&fuzz_r_thread.thread, &attr,
                           fuzz_r_thread_main, NULL) != 0) {
            fprintf(stderr, "fuzz: cannot start the R thread\n");
            abort();
        }
        pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
        fuzz_r_thread.started = 1;
    }

    if (fuzz_on_r_thread()) {
        fn(arg);
        return;
    }

    fuzz_job_t job = { fn, arg };
    pthread_mutex_lock(&fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
    fuzz_r_thread.job = &job;
    pthread_cond_broadcast(&fuzz_r_thread.cond);
    while (fuzz_r_thread.job != NULL)
        pthread_cond_wait(&fuzz_r_thread.cond, &fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&fuzz_r_thread.mutex);
}

/*
 * Initialize R for fuzzing.  Call once from fuzz_target_init.
 *
 * Performs:
 *   1. Set R_HOME from binary location
 *   2. Cap the vector heap (must precede R's startup, which reads it)
 *   3. Initialize embedded R, without R's signal handlers
 *   4. Point R's C stack check at the R thread's stack
 *   5. Suppress warnings
 */
static void fuzz_init_r(void)
{
    if (!fuzz_on_r_thread()) {
        fprintf(stderr, "fuzz_init_r: must run on the R thread "
                        "(define fuzz_target_init, not LLVMFuzzerInitialize)\n");
        abort();
    }

    fuzz_set_r_home();
    fuzz_set_vsize_limit();

    /* GC consistency failures ("untraced old-to-new reference", a node
     * with a bad type) are memory corruption, not input errors.  R's
     * default is to report and carry on; this makes gc_error() fatal
     * (through R_Suicide, which instrumentation/0004 turns into abort)
     * so they surface as crashes at the collection that found them. */
    if (getenv("_R_GC_FAIL_ON_ERROR_") == NULL)
        setenv("_R_GC_FAIL_ON_ERROR_", "yes", 1);

    /* R's SIGSEGV/SIGILL/etc. handlers enter an interactive recovery
     * prompt instead of crashing, which would hang the fuzzer.  Telling
     * R not to install them (rather than resetting to SIG_DFL after
     * init) keeps the sanitizers' own handlers in place, so wild-pointer
     * faults still get full ASAN reports and clean deduplication. */
    R_SignalHandlers = 0;

    /* The two halves of Rf_initEmbeddedR, with the C stack check fixed
     * up in between.  On Linux Rf_initialize_R takes R_CStackStart from
     * __libc_stack_end, the main thread's stack, so from this thread
     * every R_CheckStack() while setup_Rmainloop loads base would see
     * terabytes of usage and R would abort ("unable to initialize the
     * JIT").  macOS never sets it when embedded, which hides this
     * locally.  Switch the check off for startup, then measure against
     * this thread with R's own 5% of headroom for handling the overflow
     * error: R_CheckStack() fires as an ordinary R error at
     * 0.95 * FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE rather than the sanitizer catching a fault.
     * setup_Rmainloop itself would turn any limit above 100 MB into
     * "unlimited", hence setting it after. */
    char *r_argv[] = {"R", "--vanilla", "--no-echo", "--no-restore"};
    int r_argc = sizeof(r_argv) / sizeof(r_argv[0]);
    Rf_initialize_R(r_argc, r_argv);
    R_CStackStart = fuzz_r_thread.stack_top;
    R_CStackLimit = (uintptr_t)-1;
    R_Interactive = TRUE;   /* as Rf_initEmbeddedR */
    setup_Rmainloop();
    R_CStackLimit = (uintptr_t)(0.95 * FUZZ_R_STACK_SIZE);

    fuzz_suppress_warnings();
}

/*
 * Helper for protected evaluation via R_ToplevelExec.
 *
 * R API calls that touch R objects can longjmp on error.  Without a
 * top-level context, R's error handler crashes.  Wrapping calls in
 * R_ToplevelExec catches the longjmp cleanly.
 */
typedef struct {
    SEXP call;
    SEXP env;
} fuzz_eval_data_t;

static void fuzz_do_eval(void *data)
{
    fuzz_eval_data_t *ed = (fuzz_eval_data_t *)data;
    Rf_eval(ed->call, ed->env);
}

/* Evaluate malformed-input-heavy targets without printing each expected
 * R error. R_tryEvalSilent installs its own top-level error context. */
static void fuzz_eval_silent(SEXP call, SEXP env)
{
    int error = 0;
    R_tryEvalSilent(call, env, &error);
}

/*
 * Stage per-iteration inputs under a toplevel context.
 *
 * Rf_mkChar and Rf_allocVector can themselves signal the vector-limit
 * error.  Outside a toplevel context that error longjmps into a stack
 * frame that returned during Rf_initEmbeddedR -- undefined behaviour --
 * so input staging must be wrapped just like evaluation.  Both helpers
 * return FALSE when the allocation failed; skip the iteration then.
 */
typedef struct {
    SEXP vec;
    const char *str;
} fuzz_string_data_t;

static void fuzz_do_set_string(void *data)
{
    fuzz_string_data_t *sd = (fuzz_string_data_t *)data;
    SET_STRING_ELT(sd->vec, 0, Rf_mkChar(sd->str));
}

static Rboolean fuzz_set_string(SEXP vec, const char *str)
{
    fuzz_string_data_t sd = { vec, str };
    return R_ToplevelExec(fuzz_do_set_string, &sd);
}

/*
 * Parse and evaluate one R function literal, once, at initialization.
 *
 * Harnesses whose calls need named arguments, on.exit(close(con)) or a
 * few R-level steps around the entry point express each slot as an R
 * closure and call it with Rf_lang*; that keeps the C side free of
 * argument plumbing.  The source is harness-authored (never fuzz
 * input), so a parse or evaluation failure is a harness bug: abort.
 */
static SEXP fuzz_make_wrapper(const char *source)
{
    ParseStatus status;
    SEXP text, parsed, wrapper;
    Rf_protect(text = Rf_mkString(source));
    Rf_protect(parsed = R_ParseVector(text, -1, &status, R_NilValue));
    if (status != PARSE_OK || XLENGTH(parsed) != 1)
        abort();

    wrapper = Rf_eval(VECTOR_ELT(parsed, 0), R_BaseEnv);
    Rf_unprotect(2);
    return wrapper;
}

/*
 * fuzz_set_string with an explicit encoding mark.
 *
 * R does not validate the mark (Encoding<- lets users set it on any
 * bytes), so handing the same payload over as UTF-8 or latin1 reaches
 * the multibyte branches and their handling of invalid sequences
 * without touching the process locale.
 */
typedef struct {
    SEXP vec;
    const char *str;
    cetype_t ce;
} fuzz_ce_string_data_t;

static void fuzz_do_set_string_ce(void *data)
{
    fuzz_ce_string_data_t *sd = (fuzz_ce_string_data_t *)data;
    SET_STRING_ELT(sd->vec, 0, Rf_mkCharCE(sd->str, sd->ce));
}

static Rboolean fuzz_set_string_ce(SEXP vec, const char *str, cetype_t ce)
{
    fuzz_ce_string_data_t sd = { vec, str, ce };
    return R_ToplevelExec(fuzz_do_set_string_ce, &sd);
}

typedef struct {
    SEXP call;
    const uint8_t *data;
    size_t size;
} fuzz_raw_data_t;

static void fuzz_do_set_raw(void *data)
{
    fuzz_raw_data_t *rd = (fuzz_raw_data_t *)data;

    /* The raw vector is reachable from the (protected) call as soon as
     * SETCADR runs, and nothing allocates before the memcpy completes,
     * so no extra protection is needed. */
    SEXP raw = Rf_allocVector(RAWSXP, (R_xlen_t)rd->size);
    SETCADR(rd->call, raw);
    memcpy(RAW(raw), rd->data, rd->size);
}

static Rboolean fuzz_set_raw_arg(SEXP call, const uint8_t *data, size_t size)
{
    fuzz_raw_data_t rd = { call, data, size };
    return R_ToplevelExec(fuzz_do_set_raw, &rd);
}

/*
 * Stage the input in a scratch file.
 *
 * Some R entry points only take a path (load() of a pre-1.4 save file,
 * unzip(), file(encoding=)), so those targets rewrite one per-process
 * file each iteration instead of handing R a raw vector.  The file lives
 * in the system temp directory, which OSS-Fuzz runners allow writes to,
 * and is created once in fuzz_target_init so fuzzing never pays a
 * mkstemp per input.  Returns a malloc'd path, or NULL on failure.
 */
static char *fuzz_scratch_file(const char *name)
{
    const char *tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR");
    if (tmpdir == NULL || *tmpdir == '\0')
        tmpdir = "/tmp";

    char *path = malloc(PATH_MAX);
    if (path == NULL)
        return NULL;
    snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/fuzz-%s-XXXXXX", tmpdir, name);

    int fd = mkstemp(path);
    if (fd < 0) {
        free(path);
        return NULL;
    }
    close(fd);
    return path;
}

/* Replace the scratch file's contents.  Returns FALSE on any I/O error so
 * the iteration can be skipped rather than fuzzing a stale file. */
static Rboolean fuzz_write_scratch(const char *path, const uint8_t *data,
                                   size_t size)
{
    FILE *fp = fopen(path, "wb");
    if (fp == NULL)
        return FALSE;

    size_t written = size > 0 ? fwrite(data, 1, size, fp) : 0;
    int rc = fclose(fp);
    return written == size && rc == 0;
}

/*
 * Guard against TRE's bounded-repeat blowup.
 *
 * TRE compiles bounded repeats by duplicating the pattern AST, so nested
 * counted repeats multiply: a 36-byte pattern like
 * (?:a{2,101,})(?:a{2,101,}){100}{100} expands to ~10^8 nodes and >8GB of
 * allocations at compile time.  Those allocations are malloc, not R's
 * vector heap, so R_MAX_VSIZE cannot bound them; reject the pattern
 * before it reaches R instead.
 *
 * The product of all repeat bounds is a deliberate over-estimate --
 * sequential (non-nested) repeats add rather than multiply -- trading a
 * little coverage of repeat-heavy patterns for a hard bound on compile
 * cost.
 */
#define FUZZ_MAX_REPEAT_PRODUCT 1000000.0

static int fuzz_repeat_product_excessive(const char *pattern)
{
    double product = 1.0;

    for (const char *p = pattern; *p != '\0'; p++) {
        if (*p != '{')
            continue;

        /* The largest number inside the braces bounds this repeat. */
        unsigned long bound = 0, cur = 0;
        int counted = 0;
        const char *q = p + 1;
        for (; *q != '\0' && *q != '}'; q++) {
            if (*q >= '0' && *q <= '9') {
                cur = cur * 10 + (unsigned long)(*q - '0');
                if (cur > 10000000)
                    cur = 10000000;  /* saturate; already over any budget */
                counted = 1;
            } else if (*q == ',') {
                if (cur > bound)
                    bound = cur;
                cur = 0;
            } else {
                counted = 0;  /* not a counted repeat, e.g. "{a}" */
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!counted || *q != '}')
            continue;

        if (cur > bound)
            bound = cur;
        if (bound > 1)
            product *= (double)bound;
        if (product > FUZZ_MAX_REPEAT_PRODUCT)
            return 1;

        p = q;
    }

    return 0;
}

/*
 * libFuzzer entry points.
 *
 * A harness defines fuzz_target_init and fuzz_target_run with the
 * LLVMFuzzerInitialize / LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput signatures; these run
 * them on the R thread, one condition-variable handoff each way per input.
 */
int fuzz_target_init(int *argc, char ***argv);
int fuzz_target_run(const uint8_t *data, size_t size);

typedef struct {
    int *argc;
    char ***argv;
    int result;
} fuzz_init_job_t;

static void fuzz_do_target_init(void *data)
{
    fuzz_init_job_t *job = data;
    job->result = fuzz_target_init(job->argc, job->argv);
}

typedef struct {
    const uint8_t *data;
    size_t size;
    int result;
} fuzz_run_job_t;

static void fuzz_do_target_run(void *data)
{
    fuzz_run_job_t *job = data;
    job->result = fuzz_target_run(job->data, job->size);
}

int LLVMFuzzerInitialize(int *argc, char ***argv)
{
    fuzz_init_job_t job = { argc, argv, 0 };
    fuzz_run_on_r_thread(fuzz_do_target_init, &job);
    return job.result;
}

int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t *data, size_t size)
{
    fuzz_run_job_t job = { data, size, 0 };
    fuzz_run_on_r_thread(fuzz_do_target_run, &job);
    return job.result;
}

#endif /* FUZZ_COMMON_H */

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