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+/* A tiny utility for fuzzing bzip3 round-trip compression/decompression.
+ *
+ * Prerequisites:
+ * 
+ * - AFL https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
+ * - clang (part of LLVM)
+ * 
+ * On Arch this is `pacman -S afl++ clang`
+ *
+ * # Instructions:
+ * 
+ * 1. Prepare fuzzer directories
+ * 
+ * mkdir -p afl_in && mkdir -p afl_out
+ * 
+ * 2. Insert a test file to afl_in/
+ * 
+ * cp ./standard_test_files/63_byte_file.bin afl_in/
+ * 
+ * 3. Build binary (for fuzzing)
+ * 
+ * afl-clang-fast fuzz-round-trip.c -I../include -o fuzz -g3 "-DVERSION=\"0.0.0\"" -O3 -march=native
+ * 
+ * 4. Run the fuzzer
+ * 
+ * AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ=1 afl-fuzz -i afl_in -o afl_out -- ./fuzz @@
+ *
+ * 5. For ASAN testing:
+ *
+ * export AFL_USE_ASAN=1
+ * afl-clang-fast fuzz-round-trip.c -I../include -o fuzz -g3 "-DVERSION=\"0.0.0\"" -O3 -march=native
+ */
+
+#include "../include/libbz3.h"
+#include "../src/libbz3.c"
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#define KiB(x) ((x)*1024)
+#define DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE KiB(65)
+
+// Required for AFL++ persistent mode
+#ifdef __AFL_HAVE_MANUAL_CONTROL
+#include <unistd.h>
+__AFL_FUZZ_INIT();
+#endif
+
+// Function to emulate a crash for diagnostic purposes
+static void __attribute__((noreturn)) crash_with_message(const char* msg) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "Emulating crash: %s\n", msg);
+    // Use abort() to generate a crash that ASAN and other tools can catch
+    abort();
+}
+
+// Returns 0 on success, crashes on failure
+static int try_round_trip(const uint8_t *input_buf, size_t input_len) {
+    if (input_len == 0) return 0;
+
+    // Use the larger of DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE or input_len
+    size_t block_size = input_len > DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE ? input_len : DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE;
+    
+    struct bz3_state *state = bz3_new(block_size);
+    if (!state) {
+        return -1; // allocation failures not tested.
+    }
+
+    // Allocate buffer for both compression and decompression
+    // Using block_size to ensure we have enough space for both operations
+    size_t comp_buf_len = bz3_bound(input_len);
+    uint8_t *comp_buf = malloc(comp_buf_len);
+    if (!comp_buf) {
+        bz3_free(state);
+        return -1; // allocation failures not tested.
+    }
+
+    // Step 0: Move input to compress buffer
+    memmove(comp_buf, input_buf, input_len);
+
+    // Step 1: Compress the input
+    int32_t comp_size = bz3_encode_block(state, comp_buf, input_len);
+    if (comp_size < 0) {
+        bz3_free(state);
+        free(comp_buf);
+        crash_with_message("Compression failed");
+    }
+
+    // Step 2: Decompress
+    int bzerr = bz3_decode_block(state, comp_buf, comp_buf_len, comp_size, input_len);
+    if (bzerr < 0 || bzerr != input_len) {
+        bz3_free(state);
+        free(comp_buf);
+        crash_with_message("Decompression failed");
+    }
+
+    // Step 3: Compare
+    if (memcmp(input_buf, comp_buf, input_len) != 0) {
+        bz3_free(state);
+        free(comp_buf);
+        crash_with_message("Round-trip data mismatch");
+    }
+
+    bz3_free(state);
+    free(comp_buf);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int test_file(const char *filename) {
+    FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "rb");
+    if (!fp) {
+        perror("Failed to open input file");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);
+    size_t size = ftell(fp);
+    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
+
+    uint8_t *buffer = malloc(size);
+    if (!buffer) {
+        fclose(fp);
+        crash_with_message("Failed to allocate input buffer");
+    }
+
+    if (fread(buffer, 1, size, fp) != size) {
+        fclose(fp);
+        free(buffer);
+        crash_with_message("Failed to read input file");
+    }
+    fclose(fp);
+
+    int result = try_round_trip(buffer, size);
+    free(buffer);
+    return result;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+#ifdef __AFL_HAVE_MANUAL_CONTROL
+    __AFL_INIT();
+    
+    while (__AFL_LOOP(1000)) {
+        try_round_trip(__AFL_FUZZ_TESTCASE_BUF, __AFL_FUZZ_TESTCASE_LEN);
+    }
+#else
+    if (argc != 2) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <input_file>\n", argv[0]);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    return test_file(argv[1]);
+#endif
+
+    return 0;
+}
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