MozillaSecurity / MozillaSecurity/FuzzManager

Profile signature match performance

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crashmanager enhancement help wanted performance
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Python
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Description

Signature performance can vary wildly depending on the symptoms used. Eg. adding a loose crash-address symptom in addition to a symptom to string match on stderr will speed up matching significantly.

It would be great to have a performance counter for each signature, so we have some indication of which signatures could use tuning to improve match performance.

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Research direction

Start by locating the signature-matching entry point and the reporting path; neither is named in the issue. Use the loose crash-address and stderr string-match examples to compare timings, then define how a per-signature performance counter is exposed and what result indicates that tuning is needed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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