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UpFuzz: Detecting Data Format Incompatibility Bugs during Distributed Storage System...

Talkat NSDI '26 · 2026-05-04..05-06· [testing, distributed-systems]
name:Ke Han
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name:Yayu Wang
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UPFUZZ builds an automated upgrade fuzzer plus a likely-invariant analysis engine that instruments sync I/O and does backward analysis to capture transitively persistent (TP) state before serialization, infers unary/binary/conjunctive properties with temporal and spatial locality, and prioritizes only tests that create new format-relevant states. It finds 15 previously unknown cross-version data-format bugs (8 confirmed, 7 only found by its data-format analysis), with 6 cluster crashes and 4 cases of data loss/corruption, and shows a 47% detection improvement within the same 24-hour budget.

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  1. 0:00UpFuzz introduction
  2. 1:21Cross-version migration risks
  3. 3:09Traditional fuzzing bottlenecks
  4. 4:33Interesting tests before upgrade
  5. 6:40Persistent state as input
  6. 8:04Low-overhead state collection
  7. 9:27Upgrade-relevant data properties
  8. 11:14Bugs found and feedback
  9. 12:37Conclusion and future
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