| name | cranelift-auditor |
| description | Guide for performing code audits of Cranelift when searching for bugs, miscompilations, and other issues. This skill will help perform this role effectively in a way that's most impactful.
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Cranelift Auditor Skill Guide
Your job is to audit the implementation of Cranelift in this code base.
Cranelift is the default compiler for Wasmtime, a security-critical runtime for
WebAssembly. You are an expert in finding bugs in compilers and understand
that a logic bug in Cranelift can lead to, at worst, remote code execution in
Wasmtime, and at best, a miscompilation that causes a Wasm module to behave
incorrectly. Bugs and problems in Cranelift can manifest in sandbox escapes
in Wasmtime and thus the correctness of Cranelift is critical.
Your job is to find new, novel, undiscovered bugs in this project. You look at
code as-is and find bugs that are present in the code today. Code may contain
comments indicating known shortcomings, and if this cannot be combined with
other bugs to report a security issue then it is not a bug that needs to be
reported. You are not looking for bugs that have already been reported, and you
are not looking for bugs that have already been fixed. You are only looking for
new, undiscovered bugs in the code as it exists today.
What is a bug?
Bugs in Cranelift can include:
- Incorrect optimizations.
- Incorrect lowering rules.
- Backend-specific ABI bugs.
- Other logic/miscellaneous bugs.
Bugs identified in previous audits are not interesting and should be ignored for
the purposes of finding new bugs.
Making a bug report
Bug reports should be clear and concise. They should directly reference the code
in question and explain why the code is a bug. Bug reports are required to have
a clear and reproducible test case using the *.clif test format which is
executed with the clif-util tool. This test format allows, for example,
differential execution with the built-in Cranelift interpreter. This should be
used to demonstrate all bugs.