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osobhandClaude Opus 5.5 b55b24b7ba docs: crate READMEs describe each crate as it is today
Every crate under crates/ now has a README (android, bench, cli, napi and
wasm had none), each saying what the crate is, its main types and
functions (names checked against the code), its cargo features with
defaults and which ones build C (checked with `cargo tree`), and links to
the top-level docs.

Corrections to the old stubs:
- clawhdf5-derive: the derive is `H5Type`, not `HDF5Type`, and it needs
  clawhdf5-format as a dependency.
- clawhdf5-filters: deflate backends only, and no library crate depends
  on it; the filter pipeline and every other codec are in -format.
- clawhdf5-gpu: vector distance compute, not I/O; not used by
  HDF5Memory::search.
- clawhdf5-io: MpiVol is root-read + broadcast, not collective MPI-IO.
- clawhdf5-ann: from_hdf5/search(q, k) did not exist; load_from_hdf5 and
  search(q, k, ef).
- clawhdf5-accel: checksum::crc32_simd did not exist; the SSE4 and wasm
  backends are reported but run the scalar kernels.
- clawhdf5-gpu: the old example called l2_distances, which does not
  exist (l2_search).
- clawhdf5-agent: it described a "vector store" with "GPU acceleration";
  it now covers HDF5Memory, search options, WAL, signing, the graph.
- crates.io/docs.rs badges removed and `cargo install <crate>` replaced:
  nothing is published; depend on git.
- fuzz: the opt-in CLAWHDF5_FUZZ_SECONDS smoke run in ci-test.sh.
- tools: the FileEditor interop tests that live in this crate.
- remote, py: license, other front ends, limits, File.mode/flush/chunks.

The Rust examples of the facade, format, filters, accel, ann, derive and
agent READMEs were compiled and run as tests (netcdf4, gpu and remote
compiled only) in a scratch crate; the CLI example was run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-28 11:13:30 -05:00

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Fuzz Testing for clawhdf5-format

Uses cargo-fuzz (libFuzzer) to test parser robustness against malformed inputs.

Prerequisites

cargo install cargo-fuzz
rustup toolchain install nightly

Fuzz Targets

Target Parser Description
fuzz_superblock Superblock::parse Superblock parsing (v0-v3) with signature search
fuzz_object_header ObjectHeader::parse Object header v1/v2 with various offset/length sizes
fuzz_datatype Datatype::parse All 12 HDF5 datatype classes (recursive)
fuzz_dataspace Dataspace::parse Dataspace messages with various length sizes
fuzz_fractal_heap FractalHeapHeader::parse Fractal heap header parsing
fuzz_btree_v2 BTreeV2Header::parse B-tree v2 header parsing
fuzz_filter_pipeline FilterPipeline::parse Filter pipeline messages (v1/v2)
fuzz_full_file signature + superblock + root group End-to-end file parsing chain
fuzz_dataset_read Dataset::read_* (via clawhdf5) Walks every dataset in the parsed file and exercises the contiguous/chunked/compact raw-data read paths (chunked_read.rs, data_read.rs) that fuzz_full_file doesn't reach

Running

Run a single target (runs indefinitely until stopped or a crash is found):

cd crates/clawhdf5-format
cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_datatype

Run with a time limit (seconds):

cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_datatype -- -max_total_time=60

Run all targets for 30 seconds each:

for target in fuzz_superblock fuzz_object_header fuzz_datatype fuzz_dataspace \
              fuzz_fractal_heap fuzz_btree_v2 fuzz_filter_pipeline fuzz_full_file \
              fuzz_dataset_read; do
    echo "=== $target ==="
    cargo +nightly fuzz run "$target" -- -max_total_time=30 -max_len=4096
done

CI

These targets are not run by the CI workflows (.gitea/workflows/ci.yml) — cargo-fuzz requires nightly and each meaningful run takes minutes, which doesn't fit a per-PR gate. Run them by hand before a release or after touching parser code. scripts/ci-test.sh has an opt-in smoke run: with CLAWHDF5_FUZZ_SECONDS=N it runs every target of this crate and of crates/clawhdf5-agent/fuzz (the WAL parser) for N seconds each.

Other robustness checks that do run: the nightly conformance sweep reads the HDF Group's CVE reproducers and fails on any panic, hang, crash or out-of-memory (conformance/README.md), and scripts/h5rs-fuzz.sh runs every h5rs subcommand over them, optionally on byte-flipped copies.

Reproducing Crashes

If a crash is found, the input is saved to fuzz/artifacts/<target>/. Reproduce with:

cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_datatype fuzz/artifacts/fuzz_datatype/crash-<hash>

Minimize the crashing input:

cargo +nightly fuzz tmin fuzz_datatype fuzz/artifacts/fuzz_datatype/crash-<hash>

Design

Each fuzz target feeds arbitrary bytes directly to a parser entry point. The parsers must never panic on any input -- they should return Err(FormatError) for malformed data. Any panic found by fuzzing is a bug that should be fixed with proper bounds checks and error returns.