There are at least two superfluous checks this project has inherited from libdislocator:
Additional protected page is allocated at the end of each region. This crashes the binary on buffer overflows, but uses more memory than normal.
There is a global counter for the total amount of memory allocated, and at some point the library refuses to allocate any more. This is useful to detect a memory leak.
The primary reason I want to get rid of these is that I want to be sure that when a binary crashes under libdiffuzz and doesn't crash without it, it's because uninitialized memory is leaked into the output.
There are other excellent tools to isolate buffer overflows or memory leaks (asan, libdislocator), which should be used if those are the issues you're looking for.
Shnatsel
commented
6 years ago
There are at least two superfluous checks this project has inherited from libdislocator:
The primary reason I want to get rid of these is that I want to be sure that when a binary crashes under libdiffuzz and doesn't crash without it, it's because uninitialized memory is leaked into the output.
There are other excellent tools to isolate buffer overflows or memory leaks (asan, libdislocator), which should be used if those are the issues you're looking for.